In many specialty chemical and pharmaceutical batch processes, you'll find classic cascade and split-range control strategies used on vessel jacket heating and cooling. I caught up with Emerson's Mark Coughran on a recent visit that he and Guillermo Bravo had...
A few weeks ago, I recapped an article by Emerson's Mark Coughran, Know when to look outside the PID tuning. It turns out that this article was not only filled with the wisdom that Mark has accumulated over the many years as a...
Refinery blending operations are the "cash registers" since it "…is the last chance to optimize the final saleable product, as well as the final opportunity to achieve as close to product specifications as possible." A recent RBN Energy blog post, The Price You Pay...
In adhesive production processes, coalescers and separators are used to accelerate the separation of immiscible liquid (completely insoluble) dispersions. I learned about this from Emerson's Sudhir Jain and Mark Coughran, who shared a recent visit they made with an...
Moving from the theoretical world of proportional-integral-derivative control to applying it successfully is a hurdle new process control engineers face. Once mastered, the next step might be in applying advanced process controls. Model predictive control, neural...
Emerson's Sudhir Jain shared an interesting McKinsey & Company article, The next frontier for digital technologies in oil and gas, describing how this industry historically and today, embraces technologies to improve business performance. This was true even 30...
Maximizing the recovery of natural gas liquids from natural gas improves margins for midstream oil & gas producers. In an earlier post, Optimizing the Process of Purifying Natural Gas Liquids we highlighted the role of advanced process controls and expertise in...
In an RBN Energy blog post, The Yellow Rose Of Texas: Battle Of Texas Ethane Begins As Cargo #1 Departs Morgan's Point, it not only gives a great history lesson on the origins of the Yellow Rose of Texas, but also the market dynamics for ethane production. It...
We opened this week with a look at how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the traditional view of information flow through the process manufacturing and production enterprise as defined by the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture developed in the...
Update: Thank you to CHS' Eric Wheatcroft and the Emerson Exchange Board for the OK to share this presentation with everyone. You'll find much more to the story, such as all the controlled, manipulated, constraint and disturbance variables that were included in the...
As oil prices have remained lower for many months, many oil & gas producers have shifted their priorities from new production to optimizing existing production and reducing operating costs with the assets currently in place. In the quick, 2-minute video,...
Let's highlight a few more of the accepted presentations from Emerson experts presenting at the October 12-16 Emerson Exchange conference in Denver. You can download a spreadsheet with the entire list of accepted abstracts here. These presentations share experiences,...
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