Process control lab at Sydney Uni

Schneider Electric has opened an electric process control laboratory at the University of Sydney that will teach and train process engineering, dynamics and control.

Opened by Emeritus Professor Rolf Prince of the university and Lionel Finidori, managing director Pacific Zone of Schneider, the laboratory is the culmination of years of close collaboration between the university and the company.

The focus of the partnership is on building the skills and competencies of graduates by providing students practical process control implementation experience and extending the chemical engineering theory.

Lab work will cover instrumentation, process control and operations as well as the wider issues of optimisation and energy management, operability, quality, reliability, safety and viability of processes in the plant.

The lab will also address the needs of process control professionals already in the workforce through professional development courses to be run by the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Foundation of the University, in collaboration with Schneider.