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Process Control

Improve yield accounting by including density measurements explicitly

Reconcile both mass and volume simultaneously

Avoid these mistakes when installing a flare flowmeter

Mustang Engineers, LP: Shah, G. C.

New environmental regulations mandate reporting mass rates for hazardous compounds at flares. Apply these common sense guidelines and streamline meter selection

HP Control: Has the advanced process control industry completely collapsed?

Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.

I stopped writing   editorials for a while because people were uncomfortable reading them. But I have finally decided against burying my head in sand. We ? control engineers ? should discu..

Consider modeling transient state reactions with spreadsheets

Chairman, Depart of Chemical an dPRoces Engineering Technology, Jubail Indistrial College: Coker, A. K.

New techniques streamline analyzing process control variables

HP Control: The role of IT in controls: Is it time to change your support model?

HP Editorial Staff: Gooch, J.

When computers entered the world of process control, they were large monolithic machines. Since they were, after all, computers, many companies took the stance that the machines belonged to, and would..

NIR analyzer installation in multiple product streams

Koch HC Partnership B.V.: Smits, R.  |  van Zevenbergen, R.

Using multipurpose instrumentation can save time and money

Improve APC project success

Grodidier Consulting Services: Grosdidier, P.

Understand these pitfalls to avoid problems

Model-free adaptive technology improves distillation column chain control

CyboSoft: Cheng, G. S.
PetroChina: Zhang, W. D.

It enabled PetroChina to increase production safety and efficiency

How to lose money with inferential properties

Whitehouse Consulting: King, M. J.

Fourteen more rules that, if followed, will ensure that advanced control will drive the unit further away from optimum operation

Embedded APC tools reduce costs of the technology

Emerson Process Management: Sharpe, P.
BP Amoco BDO Manufacturing: Rezabek, J.

Control projects can be more easily justified for smaller plants