The PSE Group develops its activity within the Institute for Systems and Robotics-Porto, receiving a share from the tri-annual contract-programes approved by the Funda��o para Ci�ncia e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology) for the Institute.

Other contracts currently in progress or of the recent past:

1. Rede ALFA em p�s-gradua��o em Process and Systems Engineering, Alfa program AML/B7-311/97/06666/II-0385-FA; SI2.344842.1.B2004, 2004/2006. Partners: 4 European departments and 5 Latin-American departaments
2. Cyclone optimisation, POCTI/EQU/37992/2001, 2002/2005

 

1. Batch Process Optimisation (BatchPro), FP5 - Research Training Network (RTN) -  1999-2004,   EU Contract Number RTN1-1999-00245. Partners: 7 European research groups
2. Caracterisa��o de aglomera��o e de cin�tica de cristaliza��o em processos industriais, usando an�lise de imagem, FCT/PRAXIS XXI contracto POCTI/1999/EQU/33131, 2000/2003
3. Cyclone optimisation, PRAXIS XXI /P/EQU/12003/98, 1999-2001
4. Large scale optimisation, PRAXIS XXI /3/3.1/CEG/2641/95, 1998-2001, Partner E. Ferreira, (Univ. Minho)
5. RS_VHE cyclones, Portuguese Innovation Agency contract, 2000-2001, Partner Azevedos Industrias S.A.
6. Characterisation of agglomeration and of crystallisation kinetics in industrial processes through image analysis,   FCT/PRAXIS XXI contract POCTI/1999/EQU/33131, 2000-2001.
7. Identification of Optimal Operating Conditions and Risk Limits for Biological Wastewater Treatment Plants, NATO Linkage Grant EST.CLG 974850 -, with University Politechnica Bucharest, Romania, 1999-2000
8. Cooperation ICCTI-Ambassade de France, ref. 423/Fran�a, B4/065, 1997-2000
9. Multiphase bioreactors, JNICT/PRAXIS XXI contract /2/2.1/bio/1061/95, 1996-2000.  Partners J. A. Teixeira (scientific director), E. Ferreira, F. Oliveira (Univ. Minho);  M.M. Fonseca e S. Alves (IST-Tech. Univ. Lisbon)
10. SUDICOP - AI methods for process supervision, diagnosis and control , CYTED program,Sub-program VII - Applied Electronics and Informatics, project VII-5, cooperation with 8 european and latin-american universities, 1996-2000
11. International Master in Industrial Control Systems, Postgraduate network in Industrial Informatics, ALFA Program RAP II project ALR/B7-3011/94.04-6.0272.9,  cooperation with 8 european and latin-american universities (1998-2000)
12. Monitoring and multivariable control of industrial ovens, Industrial contract with RECOR, SA., 1999-2000.  Partner: Control Systems and Technology Group (within the Institute for Systems and Robotics) 1998-2000
13. Laboratory data treatment, Industrial contract - ISR-ALCO sa - , 1999-2000
14. European Network in Chemical Process Control,  Human Capital and Mobility Program -- ref. ERBCHRXCT 940672, cooperation with 12 other european laboratories, concluded in 1998
15. Modelling and control of sugar liquor evaporators and evaporative crystallizers, with L. Bento and J.M. Chorao (RAR - Refinarias de A��car Reunidas s.a. ), M. J. Gon�alves (ISE-Porto), P. Pimenta (Univ. Minho), A. B. Ferreira (ISR), Industrial contract - ISR-RAR sa. concluded in 1996
16. Modelling and control of sugar liquor evaporators and evaporative crystallizers, with L. Bento and J.M. Chorao (RAR - Refinarias de A��car Reunidas s.a. ), M. J. Gon�alves (ISE-Porto), P. Pimenta (Univ. Minho), A. B. Ferreira (ISR), concluded 1997
17. Process monitoring and control through hybrid approaches, cooperation with A. Luebbert (Martin-Luther Universtaet, Halla, Germany), cooperation JNICT-INIDA, 1993-1995
18. Dry gas cleaning with cyclone reactors, Programme JNICT/PRAXIS XXI, 1995-1998