Frank Sokollik

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Frank Sokollik (2014)

Frank Sokollik (born December 20, 1949 in Merseburg ) is a German engineer and professor of automation technology . It is particularly dedicated to research and the training of engineers in the field of automation for process engineering and building technology processes .

Career

Frank Sokollik was born in Merseburg. Here he attended elementary school from 1956 to 1964 and then advanced secondary school , where he passed his Abitur in 1968. In parallel to the normal school education with the aim of the Abitur, he learned the profession of an MSR mechanic, and this was decisive for his later study plan.

In 1968 his studies took him to the Technical University of Ilmenau , where he studied technical cybernetics with a specialization in automatic control at Karl Reinisch's chair . During his student days he also got to know the "fathers of automation" Heinrich Kindler from Dresden and Winfried Oppelt from Darmstadt. In 1972 he completed his studies with a diploma thesis on the topic of "Static Optimization in Hierarchical Systems with Unknown Process Models" with distinction.

Immediately afterwards he began his work as a scientific assistant in the Process Engineering Section, Automation Technology Science Department (Head: Georg Brack ) at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg . The work with his academic teacher Georg Brack was formative for his further professional activity. Here he learned completely new approaches to automating process engineering processes. He completed his dissertation on the topic of “Identification of systems with distributed parameters” in 1975 and defended it in 1976 with the title “magna cum laude”. After completing his dissertation, he went to the Institute for Electrical Systems (IEA) in Berlin in 1975 .

In 1976 he returned to the Technical University of Merseburg, where he became a scientific assistant and later a senior assistant at Georg Brack's chair. In addition to the associated teaching activity, he devoted himself to research in the field of “control of hierarchical systems”. This led to the habilitation thesis on the subject of "Control Problems in the Operational Control of Production" (Dissertation B, later converted into Habilitation), which he successfully defended in 1983. To implement this work, he took up a practical activity in the Leuna works in Leuna in 1981 .

Working as an automation technician in industry

After completing his doctorate in 1975 and 1976, Sokollik worked at the Institute for Electrical Systems (IEA) Berlin, a central research and development facility in the electrical industry with around 800 employees. This institute belonged to the combine automation systems in Berlin. Here he was involved in the development of standardized interfaces in computer-aided automation systems.

Later, from 1981 to 1983, he worked in the large chemical industry in the Leuna works, which at the time was approx. 30,000 employees worked as group leaders for research and development. The main subject of his work was the development of a control system for optimal steam distribution for the entire plant network. This practical activity was closely related to the previously edited habilitation thesis.

In 1983 he ended his activity at the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences and began as a department head for control technology, later as a branch manager at the Scientific-Technical Ceramics Company (WTK) Meißen, Langewiesen branch near Ilmenau in Thuringia, a long-term activity in the field of automation of manufacturing processes of porcelain. This company belonged to the Feinkeramik Kahla combine in Thuringia.

Pointing the way for the automation of firing processes in the ceramic industry for the whole of Germany was his development work on the computer-aided control of tunnel kilns and shuttle kilns . For the first time, he and his team succeeded in computer-aided automation of the porcelain firing in the world-famous porcelain factory in Meissen .

With the end of the GDR came the end of this WTK company in 1991, and in the period up to 1996 Sokollik oriented itself in various branches of industry and was also active as an entrepreneur.

Act as a professor

University of Merseburg - main building on campus

In 1996 Sokollik took up a part-time teaching position as a professor of automation technology at the University of Merseburg , and in 1997 he was appointed professor in the electrical engineering department of this university (Rector: Johanna Wanka ).

The university teaching of Sokollik including in particular lectures in the fields of control engineering , process and building automation , modeling and simulation , state control and nonlinear control and measurement technology . Here he played a key role in the training of qualified engineers in the rather rare specialization in automation systems for process engineering processes in German-speaking countries . The building automation specialization was added later under his leadership. In cooperation with his professor colleagues Werner Kriesel , Peter Cschornack , Peter Helm , Tatjana Lange and Rainer Winz , internship facilities have been created at the level of industry-related automated systems for process engineering and air conditioning, which represent a unique selling point compared to comparable university institutions in German-speaking countries and to profile the Automation engineering in the electrical engineering course.

Frank Sokollik (2nd from right) with automation professors in Merseburg: Manfred Lohöfener to the right, Rainer Winz and Werner Kriesel to the left ; 2005

As a university professor, Sokollik worked on a number of fields of science in his research . He developed an independent, industry-related research activity with several partners. Practical solutions were developed for innovative methods of regulation and control, which were also used for endurance testing on the specially created, industry-oriented, highly automated air conditioning and ventilation system. During his work on plant automation, he maintained close specialist contacts with Dominik Surek , head of the Affiliated Institute for Fluid and Pump Technology (FPT) in the engineering and natural sciences department (INW), and he also cooperated with mechatronics engineer Manfred Lohöfener , who later worked there Dean was elected.

With his work in the field of hardware-in-the-loop solutions for controlling ventilation systems in particular , he succeeded in an approach that was previously unknown. A simulation is automatically generated from a conventional CAE system for planning the automation of ventilation systems and simulated in a separate simulation environment. The coupling between the simulation and the controller to be tested is implemented without complex wiring via common bus systems .

With his patented development of a process for the optimal control and regulation of air conditioning systems, an energy-efficient operation of air conditioning systems is possible.

In addition to numerous national and international specialist lectures, his scientific publications include over 25 articles in specialist journals as well as patents and participation in several book publications.

Fonts (selection)

  • Identification of systems with distributed parameters. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 17, No. 8, 1974, pp. 271-273.
  • For parameter estimation of systems with distributed parameters using on-line methods. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 19, No. 3.1976, pp. 84-87.
  • For the optimal selection of the measuring locations for the parameter estimation of systems with distributed parameters. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 19, No. 6, 1976, pp. 194-195.
  • A method for obtaining active experiments for parameter estimation of systems with distributed parameters. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 20, No. 4, 1977, pp. 199-200.
  • For the design of on-line controls of process engineering processes. Knowledge Reports of the TH Leipzig 1978, No. 26, pp. 15-19 (with Metzing, P.).
  • Technical cybernetics tasks in the operational control of production. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 22 No. 11, 1979, pp. 604-607 (with Brack, G. ).
  • For the application of penalty functions in the optimization of process engineering systems. Knowledge Journal of the TH Leuna-Merseburg. Vol. 21, No. 2, 1979, pp. 230-239 (with Grauer, M .; Metzing, P.).
  • Optimal control of the stationary behavior of a binary distillation column. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 22, No. 3, 1979, pp. 131-136 (with Metzing, P.).
  • For the design of on-line controls of process engineering processes. Knowledge Journal of the TH Leuna-Merseburg. Vol. 22, No. 1, 1980, pp. 86-90 (with Metzing, P.).
  • Conditions for situations that trigger optimization in the optimal on-line control of process engineering plants. Knowledge Journal of the TH Leuna-Merseburg. Vol. 22, No. 1, 1980, pp. 86-90.
  • Distribution of limited resources. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 24, No. 7, 1981, pp. 387-392.
  • The engineering tasks in the operational control of production. Chemische Technik, Jg. 34, No. 2, 1982, pp. 61-63 (with Brack, G. ).
  • Hierarchical controls for the operational control of large systems. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 27, No. 5, 1984, pp. 194-197 (with Brack, G. ).
  • Opportunities and problems of operational control with rule-based advisory systems - an application from the ceramics industry. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Jg. 31, No. 10, 1988, pp. 447-453 (with Böhme, D .; Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, H.-J., Wernstedt, J .; Winkler, W.).
  • Computer-aided control of tunnel ovens. Silikattechnik, Vol. 39, No. 4, 1988, pp. 134-135 (with Mahlendorf, R .; Laudan, U.).
  • Simulation of tunnel ovens. Silikattechnik, Vol. 39, No. 5, 1988, pp. 171-172 (with Wätzel, Th.).
  • Optimal control and regulation of air conditioning systems. Part 1: HLH ventilation / air conditioning - heating / sanitary - building technology, vol. 52, no. 5, 2001, pp. 44–49; Part 2: No. 7, pp. 42–45 (with Birnbaum, V .; Heibel, M.).
  • Development of a simulation-based development environment for control / regulation of air conditioning systems . In: Research reports of the University of Merseburg , 2004/2005, pp. 19–22. (with Richter, A., Reuter, T.).
  • Hardware in the loop in building automation (HILGA). In: Research reports from the University of Merseburg , 2008/2009 (with Richter, A.).
  • KNX / EIB for building system technology in residential and functional buildings. Hüthig Verlag, Heidelberg 5th edition 2009 (with Kriesel, W .; Helm, P., Seela, R.). ISBN 978-3-7785-4054-1 .
  • Development of a simulation environment for Hardware In The Loop (HiL) solutions for the automation of air conditioning systems. Final report on the FHprofUnd research project, published by TIB Hannover, 2011 (with Richter, A .; Luster, A.).
  • Hardware-in-the-loop solutions for room automation, heating and cooling technology. Final report on the FHprofUnt research project, published by TIB Hannover, 2013 (with Richter, A., Surek, D. , Thiericke, Ch.).
  • Automation of air conditioning systems. HLH ventilation / air conditioning - heating / sanitary - building technology, vol. 64, no. 5, 2013, pp. 71–73. (with Richter, A.).
  • Working group of professors for control engineering (ed.): Digital building automation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 3rd edition 2004, ISBN 3-540-00469-6 .
  • Method and device for controlling air temperature and humidity in rooms by means of an air conditioning system. European patent application 2002.
  • Method and device for controlling the air parameters in rooms by means of air conditioning. European patent application 2014.
  • KNX for building system technology in residential and functional buildings. VDE Verlag, Berlin; Offenbach, 6th, revised and expanded edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-8007-4033-8 (book), ISBN 978-3-8007-4055-0 (e-book). (with helmet, P. and Seela, R.).

literature

  • Dietrich Werner, D. Herrmann: msr presents: Technical University "Carl Schorlemmer" Leuna-Merseburg - Process Engineering Section, Automation Engineering Science Area. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 27, No. 5, 1984, pp. 231-235.
  • Karl Heinz Fasol ; Rudolf Lauber; Franz Mesch; Heinrich Rake ; Manfred Thoma ; Heinz Töpfer : Great Names and the Early Days of Control in Germany. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 54, 2006, No. 9, pp. 462-472.
  • Werner Kriesel : Future models for computer science, automation and communication. In: Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank ; Kriesel, Werner (ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Peter Lang International Science Publishers, PL Academic Research, Frankfurt a. M .; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Warszawa; Vienna 2016, pp. 415-430, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653-06277-9 (e-book).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Reinisch : Cybernetic basics and description of continuous systems . Verlag Technik Berlin 1974, pp. 62-106.
  2. ^ Heinrich Kindler : Collection of exercises on control engineering. Verlag Technik Berlin and R. Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich; Vienna 1964 (with H. Buchta and H.-H. Wilfert).
  3. ^ Winfried Oppelt : Small manual of technical control processes. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1954, 4th edition Verlag Chemie, Weinheim and Verlag Technik, Berlin 1964, pp. 126–197, 5th edition 1972. ISBN 3-527-25347-5 .
  4. ↑ Heinz Töpfer : Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Georg Brack - 60 years. measure, control, regulate, Berlin. Vol. 34, No. 1, 1991, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Georg Brack : Technology of the automation devices. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1969, 2nd edition 1972. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1972, pp. 15-80, ISBN 3-446-11551-X .
  6. ^ Georg Brack and Hans-Dieter Maertens: Process automation. Automation technology series, Vol. 164. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1974.
  7. ↑ Georg Brack : Automation technology for users - an introduction for chemical engineers and processing technicians. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig; Stuttgart 1993, pp. 54-76, ISBN 3-342-00670-6 .
  8. ↑ Lothar Starke: From hydraulic regulators to process control systems. The success story of the Askania works in Berlin and the device and controller works in Teltow. 140 years of industrial history, tradition and future . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, pp. 84–91, ISBN 978-3-8305-1715-3 .
  9. ^ Rainer Müller: Project planning for automation systems. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1979; 2nd edition 1982, pp. 87-125.
  10. ↑ Werner Kriesel ; Tilo Heimbold ; Dietmar Telschow: Bus technologies for automation - networking, selection and application of communication systems (with CD-ROM). Hüthig Verlag, Heidelberg 1998, 2nd edition 2000, pp. 87-179, ISBN 3-7785-2778-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Sokollik, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg