District 12





1st ISA EMEA Forum

Brussels 15 & 16 September 2011

Diamant Conference Centre - Bd. A.Reyerslaan 80 - Brussels, (B)

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Low-carbon economy refers to an economy advocating low power consumption and low CO2 emissions. The major aim is to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. Low-carbon economy is a necessity if the world wants to contain the climatic change within acceptable limits.

Such a goal can only be attained combining different approaches: changing attitudes, lifestyles and content of growth, technological developments in the areas of production, transport and use of energy. Advanced automation technology is an effective way to attain energy-saving and emission reduction in various sectors. Some studies consider that information and communication technologies in general could deliver 7 to 8 Gt CO2e of emissions savings, i.e. 15% of GHG emissions in 2020 based on a "Business As Usual" estimation. There is huge market potential in the development of low-carbon economy that favors automation enterprises to actively expand to the sectors of energy production, transformation, transmission, distribution and utilization.

The first international ISA EMEA Forum, organized under the auspices of the ISA District 12 (covering the Europe, Middle East and Africa zones), will focus on the stakes of automation in the search for a low carbon economy and feature the technologies which will be of the essence in the coming years.

After overall introductions by key-note speakers, the forum will notably address the following issues:

    - Automation as a source of emissions reduction in power generation and transmission :
    • Increase of efficiency in conventional power plants, including Carbon Capture and Storage
    • Monitoring, control, optimization of wind farms and solar power plants, in combination with conventional power plants
    • Better monitoring and management of electricity grids, by integrating advanced automation solutions in smart grids

    - "Smart" transformation of industrial automation

    • New process control technologies and new algorithms for process optimization (cement, steel, oil, gas etc), including wireless, cloud computing and instrumentation clouds
    • Smart motor systems
    • Increasing of logistics efficiency by extensive use of RFID and other asset tracking systems
    - Home and building automation
    • Demand side management and advanced control of HVAC, appliances, lighting, etc.
    • New technologies (sensors, actuators, communications)
    • Customer acceptance
Special attention will be paid to major transversal issues such as cyber-security of control systems.

The 1st ISA EMEA Forum will be a unique opportunity for discovering and discussing how automation can help in making of the low-carbon economy objective an opportunity for modernizing our industry and infrastructures.

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Sponsoring Companies

Gold Sponsors Alsthom

Emerson Process Management

Endress+Hauser
Schneider-Electric
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