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Publications and Professional Presentations : ֻ

M. Sc. Thesis "Application of Small Computers in Process Control - Liquid -Liquid Extraction." (Supervisors: Prof. R. Lavie, Prof. W. Resnick). M. Sc. dissertation, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1977.

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“Eng-Tips” (http://www.eng-tips.com/)

"The significance of NIR Analysis to Process Control" NIR Seminar, May 1997, Tel Aviv.

“Corrosion Monitoring and Control in Refinery Process Units” - Paper #97512, NACE's Annual Conference, CORROSION/97, March, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana. With Alec Groysman, Oil Refineries Ltd.

"Use telecommunications for real-time process control", Hydrocarbon Processing, May 1996 (With I. Zilberman, J. Bigman, I. Sela and D. Haviv)

"Process Plant Bottleneck Identification with Process Information System - Visibility Proof." - Annual meeting of IICHE, Haifa, April 1995 (With E. Rosenblat.) ֹ

"Corrosion Monitoring in the Oil Refinery" - NACE International Conference - Grado, Italy - May, 1995. (With Dr. A. Groisman.)

"The Development of Statistical Model for Process Control." - ISRACHEM Tel Aviv -, April 1991. (With Dr. D. Farhi.)

"Advanced Control In the Control of a Crude Unit -The Atmospheric Topping Section." - The Journal of the Israel Institute of Chemical Engineering, No. 17, March 1989. (With R. Shimron.) ֹ

"Application of Adaptive Methods to the Control of a Crude Distillation column." - ICON - IEEE Conference on Control, Jerusalem, April 1989. (with G. Mendelson.)

"Advance Process Control Application in New Crude Unit." - Annual meeting of IICHE, Be'er Sheva, April 1987. (With E. Bilik.)

"Application of Advanced Process Control System In a Chemical Plant." - Annual meeting of IICHE, Shefaim, April 1985.

"Advanced Process Control System for a Chemical Plant - From Definition to Operation." -International PROMECON Control and Instrumentation Conference and Exhibition, The Institute of Measurement and Control, London, June 1984.

"A Computer for Ammonia Production Control." - ICAC,

Tel Aviv, 1979.

"Selection of Small Computer for Process Control."ֹ- Israel section of ISA, Tel Aviv, 1979.

"Application of Small Computer in the Control of an

Industrial Process." - Annual meeting of IICHE, ֹBe'er Sheva, April 1977.

Internal Publications

“The NIR role in today’s refineries’ activities” – Internal report for “GULF – Caribbean Petroleum Corporation”, San Jose, Puerto Rico, April 2000.

"Advanced Process Control System Selection for Crude Unit #4" Final report on Comparison of three systems (DMC, Star and Treiber) for ORL - 1993.

"File Management Routines for Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis system.”, - With B. Gavish and W. Shild, IBM Scientific Research Center - 1974.

"Feasibility of Cardiac Output Estimation from Respiratory Data." - With I. Berger and S. Burshtein, IBM Scientific Research Center - 1975.ֹ

Last Updated 4 December 2005.