With the emphasis on improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, process manufacturers have turned to pneumatic low-bleed and zero-bleed valve positioners. Emerson's Riyaz Ali copied me on an email about a recent article that mentioned a...
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With a Little Help from Your Global Peer-to-Peer Community
Social networks have made peer-to-peer knowledge sharing easier and more accessible than ever. Given the challenge of running process manufacturing and production facilities safely, reliably and efficiently, this ability to tap into others' expertise is critical. A...
Control Valve and Control Performance at Instrumentation Symposium
Instrumentation and automation professionals in the oil & gas industries along the Texas Gulf Coast have an excellent resource in the annual Instrumentation and Automation Symposium for the Process Industry. The 71st edition of this 3-day symposium will be held...
Business Results Optimizing Delayed Coker Operations
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...
Problem Solving Community Style
I've always seen the promise of participation in online communities and LinkedIn groups as a way for process automation and instrumentation folks to share knowledge, but leave it available for others with similar questions at a later time. While email is a...
Differences in Model Predictive Control Applications
One of the new things that we tried at last week's Emerson Exchange conference in Denver was to have our Emerson Exchange 365 community members submit questions for a Meet the Experts session panel on process control and optimization. The thread, questions and answers...
Managing Pressure and Flow Loops on Acid Gas Absorber
At the request of a reader who commented on the last post, here is another of the 11 examples that Emerson's Mark Coughran shared in his Emerson Exchange Denver presentation, Solving Pressure Control Loop Problems in Hydrocarbon Processing Plants. The commenter wrote:...
Solving Pressure Control Loop Problems
It was great having the weekend to rest and recover from a breathless pace at last week's Emerson Exchange conference. There were so many workshops to see, but with more than 350 from which to choose, I couldn't make them all. Over the next several weeks, I'll recap...
Answers to Your Process Control and Optimization Questions from the Experts
Friday is fast approaching, so submit your questions on process control and optimization to the panel of end user and Emerson experts. Visit the Emerson Exchange 365 community, Virtual Q&A: Process Control >> REPLY to THIS POST w/ QUESTIONS. I will be asking...
Solving Reactor Temperature Control Challenges
Some of my favorite posts are ones that come out of a string of problem-solving email messages. And so it is with today's post. Emerson's Mark Coughran was recently at biopharmaceutical facility that was having temperature control issues on a reactor vessel. The...
Your Opportunity to Ask those Tough Process Control Questions
One of the great things social networks have opened up is the ability to you to view into events without being there. Where it's an announcement of a new product from Apple or an event like our Emerson Exchange conferences, you can follow the action through various...
Improving Regulatory Control Performance
One of the presenters I really enjoy listening to at Emerson Exchange conferences is Emerson's James Beall. As a process control consultant, he helps process manufacturers and producers get their processes running as optimally as possible. He always shares his tips...
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