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Process Control

Improvement of IEC 60534-8-3 standard for noise prediction in control valves

Samson AG: Kiesbauer, J.  |  Vnucec, D.

Fairly simple changes lead to a considerable improvement in accuracy

Industrial power management: what plants need to know about the future electric system

GridWise Architecture Council and Invensys Process Systems: Hardin, D.

Prepare for cost-control challenges and revenue-generating opportunities

HP Control: Restoring single-loop integrity to process control

With today's evolving strategies for plant automation, many end users are asking: Should process control loops remain in a centralized distributed control system (DCS) or programmable logic controller..

Improving refinery reliability, performance and utilization

Motiva Norco Refinery: Funkhouser, J.
Emerson Process Management: Manley, F.

A new digital control system incorporating fieldbus provided substantial benefits

Gage multivariable predictive control motility to guide support

Tesoro Corp.: Kern, A.G.

Manipulated variable analysis is much simpler than controlled variable analysis for determining controller health

Probabilistic alarm management

University of La Laguna: Larraz, R.

A procedure using Markov chains provides insights based on HAZOP report information

Optimizing wireless systems in hydrocarbon processing plants

Apprion: McPherson, I.

Here's how to manage the many disparate technologies

Intrinsically safe fieldbus for hydrocarbon processing plants

MooreHawke Fieldbus: O'Neill, M.

The key issue is delivering enough power to a large number of field devices

Effective pH control through intelligent automation

Mettler-Toledo Ingold: Queeney, K.  |  van der Wal, S.

This technology can improve reliability while reducing operating costs

Zero-lag exponential moving average for real-time control and noisy data processing

Lamar University: Chen, D. H.
Chevron Phillips Chemical: Lo, P.
Sasol: Swan, W. P.

The filtering technology has no time delay