The doctoral dissertation of the student (Muhannad Helal Hamidi) in engineering major was discussed on Thursday, 23-2-2023. The dissertation title is: ‏Development and Research of an Automated Control System of the Adsorption Process to Obtain Hydrogen from Natural Gas Reforming Products The discussion committee consisted of:

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Youssef Hassan (Chairman)

Prof. Dr. Ikhlas Hamid Karam (Member)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Firas Abdel-Razaq(Member)

Asst. Prof. Dr. BushraKadhumOliwi(Member)

Asst. Prof. Dr. LumaIssa Abdel Karim (Member)

Prof. Dr. Omar FarouqLutfy(Member and Supervisor)

Hydrogen is one of the most important products of the global chemical industry. More than 75% of hydrogen is consumed in the production of ammonia and in oil refining, and there is a continuous increase in the consumption of hydrogen in the energy sector. The objective of the thesis is to ensure the maximum degree of hydrogen extraction with a purity of not less than 99.9% by optimizing the automatic control system. Two mathematical models, upper and lower, were developed to control production, and identification was made for the lower model to be as close as possible to the upper model to be ready for work. The optimization problem was demonstrated and solved by using an objective function to increase the degree of hydrogen extraction with a set of restrictions so that the purity is not less than 99.9%.The upper model was placed in a SCADA system and the lower model was placed in a PLC with a PID as an auxiliary controller.In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the control system, a series of simulation experiments were conducted to show that the developed control system handles disturbances in a shorter time than the rest of the control systems currently used in the same field, which increases the degree of hydrogen extraction.  

Under the auspices of the President of the University of Technology, Professor Dr. Ahmed Al-Ghabban, the Control and Systems Engineering Department and the Student Activities Department at the University of Technology, in cooperation with (Al-Iraqiya Huna) team, held the “Third Sports Festival for Kinetic Games” under the title (Towards the Target). The festival was held on the campus of the university on Tuesday 7/3/2023 among three teams representing the Control and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Technology, the College of Engineering at the Iraqi University, and Al-Farabi Private College. The list of games and competitions varied, and the teams competed to get the largest number of points in an atmosphere characterized by fun, enjoyment, sportsmanship, and team play, through which the team of the Control and Systems Engineering Department was able to win by one point from the strong competitor of the Iraqi University. In a speech by Prof. Dr. Azad Raheem, Head of the Control and Systems Engineering Department, he praised the great efforts made by those in charge of organizing the festival, the importance of such activities to consolidate the relationship between students and the academic staff members, teamwork towards the goal, and the relations among the faculties of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The festival was attended by a large audience of students to encourage their teams, and it was a beautiful day for them. Then, the festival was concluded by distributing prizes to the winners and taking photos.

The master's thesis of student Nora Nizar Kamal, specialized in Computers engineering, was discussed on Sunday, 19-2-2023 at the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. Her work was entitled:

Low-Density Parity Check Codec Power Reduction using Dynamic Voltage Scheduling

The examining committee consisted of:

1. Dr. Ikhlas Kazem Hamza / Chairman

2. Dr. Ahmed Mazhar Hasan / Member

3. Dr. Ali Majeed Hasan / Member

4. Dr. Qusay Fadhil Hasan / Member and Supervisor

5. Dr. Omar Younis Qasim / Member and Supervisor

The research presented reduces the power consumption of an LDPC encoder using a well-known efficient method of energy reduction called dynamic voltage frequency scheduling (DVFS) which is one of the most powerful power reduction strategies in CMOS circuits. This method was adopted to control and determine the optimal voltage level that enters the encoder, so as to reduce its total power consumption. The proposed system relied on a FLC fuzzy logic controller that calculates the input voltages of the encoder based on frequency values to reduce energy consumption as a coder cost.  

On 25/1/2023, the Control and Systems Engineering Department held a series of seminars within the scientific activities of the department in the discussion hall, Hall No. (9). In particular, the projects of the postgraduate students in the research phase, who succeeded in the second round in the specializations of Control Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Mechatronics Engineering, were discussed to identify what has been accomplished in the students’ research. The discussion aims to diagnose strengths and weaknesses, provide advice and guidance to our students, develop the method of presentation and defense of the research project, and achieve scientific benefit. The seminars were attended by the assistant head of the department for scientific affairs and postgraduate studies, heads of branches, and a group of the teaching staff members from the department.