Control valve response is a critical factor in successful control strategies and process variability. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Responsible control valve response, Emerson’s Greg McMillan and James Beall discussed the efforts underway to include valve responsiveness into the ISA 75.25 Control Valve Dynamic Testing standard.
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Avoid Operational Issues with Proper Control Valve Selection
Because they directly touch the process flow, control valves play a significant role in the stability, robustness and variability in the process. One bad-acting control valve can create large problems for safe and reliable operations. At last week's AIChE Spring...
Improving Control Performance
Today is the final day of the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. The last session I'm attending is on Control Performance with Emerson's James Beall, Courtney (Eddie) Lane, Dirk Thiele and Aspentech's Alex Kalafatis. After the panel introduced themselves, Dirk opened...
5 Questions for Principal Process Control Consultant James Beall
Emerson's James Beall joins our continuing podcast series on 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert. The goal of these podcasts is to share some tidbits on how they got their start in a science, technology, engineering & math (STEM)-based career and more about their...
5 Questions for Process Control Consultant Mark Coughran
Let's continue our 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert podcast series with Mark Coughran. Mark has decades of experience in process automation and optimization. We've shared some of Mark's experience and client engagements here on the blog. In this podcast, you'll hear...
Process Control Loop Performance Guidance
Variability in a process can impact unplanned downtime frequency, product quality, energy usage and more. I received some questions about measures of control performance from a reliability specialist in a refinery. I thought that these questions and answers I received...
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...
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...
Getting up and Running Quickly
Emerson's Gergo Kertesz shared a story of how to get a plant started up and running with the aid of control loop tuning. His abstract: This Russian Petrochemical Company is one of the world's largest petrochemical complexes. The company specialises in the production...
Increasing Intelligence in PID Control
Last week, I highlighted a narrated presentation on PID control advances by Emerson's Terry Blevins. Also at this IFAC Conference on Advances in Process Control PID'12, Terry presented Intelligent PID Product Design. A paper to complement this presentation was...
Greg McMillan Temperature Control Solutions Webinar TODAY
In the spirit of "better late than never", I wanted to highlight a live webinar by ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan. His topic will be Temperature Control Solutions and will share: …how to get the best temperature measurement and control performance for...
Refinery Solves Crude Unit Issues by Getting Back to Basics
Sometimes plants go through a revamp and things just don't work right. Loops that used to run fine in automatic mode now run in manual mode and require constant attention. I caught up last week with Emerson's James Beall, a principal process control consultant, whom...
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