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Process Control

Emerson providing metering systems for oil terminal in Iraq

Iraq’s South Oil Company has awarded Emerson Process Management a contract to provide crude oil metering systems and related technologies for the new Al-Basra oil terminal now under construction in the Persian Gulf.

Dresser renews supply agreement with big EPC customer

Dresser has renewed a strategic supply agreement to serve as a global alliance supplier for a major engineering, construction, procurement, maintenance and project management (EPC) customer.

Use online analyzers for successful monitoring

Michell Instruments Ltd.: Benton, A.
PDVSA: Valiz, C.

Improved analytics measure moisture and dew points for natural gas components

Considerations for blast-resistant electrical equipment centers

Lectrus Corp.: Cole, D.  |  Austin, D.

Guidelines explore protecting critical systems from disaster

HP Control: Process control practice renewal—select CVs

Clifftent Inc.: Latour, P. R.

I followed my April 2010 call for renewal of process control and IT practice with editorials on purpose in August, performance in October and consequences in December. Now I turn to selection of contr..

HP Integration Strategies: MPC vs. ARC—Not an ‘either/or’ decision

ARC Advisory Group: Hill, D.

Overview.In the 35 years since they introduced distributed control systems (DCSs), automation system suppliers have provided the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) and other customers with far more..

AVEVA unveils new product at SPAR Europe 2010

AVEVA announced the launch of AVEVA IntelliLaser at SPAR Europe 2010 in Amsterdam.

Siemens adds new process control system

Siemens Water Technologies announced a new addition to its technology portfolio with the purchase of the Clearlogx Process chemical feed system.

Development of support vector regression-based soft sensor

National Institute of Technology: Khalfe, N.  |  Lahiri, S. K.

Application was used in a commercial ethylene glycol plant

Implementing advanced process control on ammonia plants

Aspen Tech Middle East (ATME): Banerjee, P.
Petrochemical Industries Company: Al-Azmi, S.  |  Nayfeh, L.  |  Al-Azmi, K.

Benefits exceeding the guarantee were realized through APC by simultaneously stabilizing and optimizing the plant in the presence of significant feed density variations that impact the entire plant operation