Process Control
HP Control: APC designs for minimum maintenance—Part 3
This is the third in a series of three editorials about designing advanced process control (APC) applications for an environment of little to no maintenance. Having lamented for years about APC applic..
HP Control: APC designs for minimum maintenance—Part 2
My last month's editorial proposed that since our advanced process control (APC) applications are by and large under-maintained, these applications should be designed in the simplest possible way. The..
Optimize plant performance using dynamic simulation
This plant case history illustrates the benefits
Rethink your liquid-liquid separations
A fresh look investigates general principles in designing process coalescers
Unifying framework for six sigma and process control
The advances presented will improve quality and productivity
IT/automation convergence revisited
Keeping automation close-coupled to operation is key
HP Control: APC designs for minimum maintenance—Part 1
I, and others, have written much about the difficulties of maintaining advanced process control (APC) applications.1–5 It is a problem to be tackled on many levels. There are issues of manning, t..
Re-evaluate your expansion projects for the new global market
Tighter economic conditions require refiners to reconsider benchmark and optimization tools for revamps
How to select the better liquid-level measurement system
Here is a closer look at commonly used sensors
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of solid–liquid slurry flow
The resulting model's predictions showed reasonably good agreement with the experimental data
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