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AUTOMATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINERING PROCESSES AND PRODUCTIONS

Automation of Technological Processes and Production

Head of the programme: Aleksandr G. Shumikhin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of Automation of Technological Processes and Production Department

Academic degree: Master’s degree.

Area of study (qualification):
220700.68 Automation of Technological Processes and Production.

Priority development areas of PNRPU:
Extraction and Processing of Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources.

Target of the programme:
training of specialists in automatic control and management of engineering and information processes in development, introduction and use of computer-aided innovative information technologies at the enterprises of chemical, petroleum refining, gas, defence and other allied industries in accordance with the federal educational standard.

Programme characteristics:
modern automatically controlled productions in petroleum, petrochemical, chemical and other allied industries are distinguished for high level of process automation on basis of automatic process control systems (APCS). Introduction of computer-aided information technologies at major enterprises of chemical, petroleum and other industries has come up with many other applicable systems (САЕ, CAD, MES, ERP, etc.), apart from APCS. Interoperability of application programmes, including APCS and CAD, is ensured at hardware and software level, as well as at the data level. At present data interchange between application systems is generally organized as direct interchange between application programs when specific application program is able to prepare data for another application program, and to receive its files. In this case, it is a good practice to create united technical information space with the use of principle of “unified data presentation” when interchange between application programs is performed in the format based, for instance, on international STEP standard through data integration and management instead of direct interface. This Master’s programme is oriented at such “ideology”. The application of information technologies of data integration and management offers large industrial enterprises a number of advantages the main of which is the possibility to minimize horizontal information ties between divisions. All data retrievals are made only through data integration system which simplifies and speeds up flow of electronic technical documents and allows all authorized workers an easy access to information (data). This Master’s programme implies fundamental knowledge of automatic control in chemical and allied industries; it is aimed at earning practical skills of using process control and process management systems, APCS and modern integrated information management systems; integrated systems of design and production management, systems of database management, determination and solution of high technology problems of automatic control and intellectualization of management systems integrated into united information space of enterprise. The availability of specialists in creation and use of integrated process management systems who, apart from knowledge of information technologies and automation, are trained in chemical engineering, makes it possible to introduce and use these systems in a more effective way with due regard for production specifics. In parallel with theory, the Master’s programme includes real work and finding solutions for important applied problems determined at production and research work of industrial enterprises and organizations.

Target group:
Bachelors of the following areas: 220700.62 Automation of Technological Processes and Production, 220400.68 Technical Systems Management.

Major clients:
industrial enterprises, project, commissioning, maintenance and research organizations which carry out activities connected with automation and management of processes and operations in chemical and allied industries, namely, in Perm region.

Possible places of work for the programme graduates:
- offices of APCS, information technologies and metrology; - research, project and commissioning organizations engaged in automatic process control, and similar divisions of industrial enterprises.

Cooperation with research and development institutes and enterprises within the programme:
collaboration under the Master’s programme is accomplished in the context of production and research practices, subjects of Master’s theses based on important applied problems, contractual work and involvement of leading specialists that are usually experienced in research.

List of main subjects:
- Present-day problems of management theory. - Storage and protection of computer information. - Statistical methods of identification, control and management of quality and chemical processes. - Technologies of object-oriented programming. - Stimulation and analysis of complicated chemical engineering systems as management subjects. - Design of automatic control systems. - Integrated systems of design and automatic (computer-aided) production management. - Databases, database management system (DBMS). - Information systems of quality management in automatically controlled production. - Distributed computer-aided information management systems. - Intellectual systems. - Design of united information space at virtual enterprises.

Facilities:
using material and technical facilities and software systems of PNRPU, enterprises and organisations where students have their practical work.

Competitive advantages of graduates:
trainability at higher educational level; fast adaptability to changing production conditions after graduation; readiness for self-development, self-perfection and career-building; readiness not only for maintenance of high technology production, but for modernization and introduction of new methods and automatic control systems as well; ability to use advanced software and hardware in professional activities; opportunity of application of system analysis in development, modification and modernization of computer-aided systems using innovative information technologies.

Academic staff:
А.G. Shumikhin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, B.G. Stafeichuk, PhD in Technical Sciences, Professor, P.U. Sokolchik, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, S.N. Kondrashov, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor (OOO LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez), V.G. Plekhov, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor (OOO LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez).