Latour, P. R.
Set vapor velocity setpoints profitably
Use Clifftent principles to account for operating limit tradeoffs and risk to substantially improve financial performance
Demise and keys to the rise of process control
Modeling the penalty for violating constraints as well as modeling the credit for approaching them, and shared-risk shared-reward business practices are the solutions
What is the optimum U.S. mogas sulfur content?
Simple algebraic optimization method provides the answer to this and other environmental and plant risk management questions
Why tune control loops? Why make control loops?
Enterprise integration has abundant powerful technology capable of generating great value for the HPI, yet business issues, not technology, hamper its commercial success. The major impe..
HP Control: Quantifying financial values
I often read technical and business articles that cry out for a method to more accurately quantify the financial value of dynamic system performance improvements. Such a method has been..
HP Control: Optimize the $19-billion CIMfuels profit split
In the July 1997 "H P In Control" column, I raised the question, "Does the HPI do its CIM business right?" That was followed with a letter to the editor in Jan. '98 on "Decision-making and modeling in..
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