Dr. Zoltan  K.  Nagy

Senior Lecturer

 

Loughborough University

Chemical Engineering Department

Loughborough, LE11 3TU

United Kingdom

 

Phone: +44 (0)1509 222516
Fax:    +44 (0)1509 223923
Email: z.k.nagy@lboro.ac.uk

 

 

Current Research Interest

  • Modeling, optimization and control of pharmaceutical crystallization

  • Pharmaceutical/Healthcare Systems Engineering

  • Uncertainty (robustness) analysis; Robust control of batch processes

  • Dynamic optimization

  • Optimization based control and estimation

  • First-principles and data driven approaches for the modelling of chemical processes

  • Computer aided engineering education; Remote control and "telelaboratory" used in distance engineering education

  • Check the website of my group: Process Control and Pharmaceutical Systems Engineering Group

 

Software

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  • Process Control Tutorial in Simulink

Laboratory Tutorial

                               Simulink files

Related lecture notes

Exercise

Solution

Simulink for Process Control

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model_3rdorder_PID.mdl

model_3rdorder_FOPTD.mdl

Ex_IMC.mdl

model_3rdorder_PID_nocascade.mdl

blackbox_model.mdl  

secondordersystem.mdl

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model_3rdorder_PID_cascade.mdl

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Topic 13

Topic 14b
Simulink files for various lecture topics
Transfer function response to sinusoidal input frequencyresponse_topic8.mdl
Pole placement Topic13_PolePositioning.mdl

 

 

 

News

 

 

British Association for Crystal Growth Annual Conference (BACG) 2008, will be organized at Loughborough University

 

Past events:

website: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cgzkn/NMPC-SOFAP07/

 

Brief CV

 

Education

 

"Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, Romania, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 2001
"Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, Romania, M.S., Chemical Engineering, 1995
"Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, Romania, B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1994

 

Positions

 

2007 – present – Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) –  Chemical Engineering Department, Loughborough University, U.K.

2005 – 2007 – Lecturer (Assistant Professor) (1.5 years) – Chemical Engineering Department, Loughborough University, U.K.

2003 – 2005 – Research Associate (2 years) – Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering (IST), University of Stuttgart, Germany (70%), BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany and ABB Ladenburg, Germany (30%).

2002 – 2003 – Lecturer  (1 year) – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

2001 – 2002  – NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1 year) – Large Scale Systems Research Laboratory (Prof. RD Braatz), Chemical Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

1995 – 2005 – Assistant Professor (promoted to Associate Professor in 2005) – Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj, Romania.

 

Awards

 

  • 2008 – “Journal of Process Control Best Paper Award” for the paper M. Fujiwara, Z.K. Nagy, J.W. Chew, R.D. Braatz, First-principles and direct design approaches for the control of pharmaceutical crystallization, Journal of Process Control, 15, 493-504, 2005.

  • 2008 – “Control Engineering Practice Best Paper Award”, for the paper Z.K. Nagy, B. Mahn, R. Franke, F. Allgower, Efficient output feedback nonlinear model predictive control for temperature control of industrial batch reactors, Control Engineering Practice, 15, 839-859, 2007.

  • 2008 – “ESCAPE18 Best Paper Award”, 18th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Lyon France, for the paper and oral presentation: Z.K. Nagy, A population balance model approach for crystallization product engineering via distribution shaping control, Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering 25, 139-144, 2008.

  • 2007 – Royal Academy of Engineering and ExxonMobile Excellence in Teaching Award.

  • 2005 – “IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award“­  for paper Worst-case and distributional robustness analysis of finite-time control trajectories for nonlinear distributed parameter systems, Z.K. Nagy and R.D. Braatz,  IEEE TCST, 11 (5), 694-704, 2003.

  • 2005 – Finalist for the IFAC “Best Application Paper award”, received honorary mention, IFAC World Congress, Prague, with paper Nonlinear model predictive control of batch processes: an industrial case study by Z.K. Nagy, B. Mahn, R. Franke, F. Allgower.

  • 2005 – Best Textbook Award of the “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj, for the book Model Based Control of Chemical Processes – Case Studies, by Z.K. Nagy and S.P. Agachi.

  • 2003 – Automatica Outstanding Reviewer Award.

  • 2002 – Best paper award, Section Process Control I, The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, USA, 2002.

  • 2001 – NATO-NSF Award for postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

  • 1997 – TEMPUS fellow, Computers in Teaching Initiative Center for Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK.

  • Merit Scholarship of the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj, (9 semesters in a raw, won as number 1 student in the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1990-1994).

  • Over 20 awards at the National Olympics of Chemistry and other chemistry competitions during high school. Selected in the Romanian Olympic team for the International Chemistry Olympics.

 

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last modified by zoly September 8, 2007