The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson's Tim Olsen, Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division, that a paper on...
I caught up with Emerson's Tim Olsen, Chair of the AIChE Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (F&PD), to get an update of the work of this division. For those unfamiliar with this group, the AIChE's F&PD: …was established to further the application of chemical...
Just about all plants have a few "blind spots" where instrumentation has not been installed due to cost, installation difficulty, or other hurdle. ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan is giving an AIChE virtual local section presentation, Wireless Measurement and...
Update and bump: Tim just let me know that he's been elected to the position of 2nd Vice Chair for the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division (FPD). As described below, he'll serve a four-year term including one year as division president. Congratulations, Tim!...
A recent Wall Street Journal article, U.S. Expects Steady Climb in Energy Prices opens: Energy prices are undergoing a long, slow march higher as major economies shake off the effects of last year's recession, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday in...
I heard a few weeks back that Emerson's Dr. Doug White, was going to be honored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). I was sworn to secrecy, which is not an easy thing for someone with an itchy finger on the "publish" button. Since the press...
Let's close the week with a short post about energy saving opportunities. The pain of higher energy costs is fresh on my mind with an unexpected trip by car from Austin to Houston and back with gasoline prices now just shy of $4/gallon USD. Back in May, I wrote about...
Emerson's Doug White sent me his presentations from the recent AIChE spring meeting. Doug is a principal consultant and vice president for advanced process control (APC) services, and has many years of experience justifying, designing, installing and commissioning APC...
As reported in my DeltaV News RSS feed, Emerson's Michalle Adkins and Dawn Marruchella have written a great piece in the AIChE's Chemical Engineering Progress Magazine entitled, Ask the Experts - Avoiding the Pains of Systems Integration. In it, they recognize some of...
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