I won't spoil the press release in the works about the donation of a DeltaV system to a major university for use by a consortium of universities, but I will share that Emerson's Terry Blevins was at the university last week. He was there to provide an introductory...
ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan and Solutia's Mark Sowell will be presenting at the upcoming ISA 54th International Instrumentation Symposium. Their paper, Advances in pH Modeling and Control, describes the use of embedded simulation, coined "Virtual Plant" and...
Interphex2008, the Pharmaceutical and Biotech manufacturing conference is going on this week in Philadelphia. Before Emerson's Terry Blevins and Mike Boudreau left, they passed along the presentation they are giving on Thursday, March 27. It's entitled, Application of...
Over the past several weeks, ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan has shared a three-part series on common control myths with his readers. In the initial post in the series, Common Control Myths - Part 1, Greg offers five myths, which he then shoots down, one by...
I received an email from Anand Iyer. He's a certified project management professional (PMP) and a project manager in Emerson's engineering center in Pune, India. His project experience covers the gamut from pharmaceuticals, bulk drugs and intermediates to oil, gas and...
The Automation.com list server has an interesting thread, Three Element Drum Level Control Problem. The question asked was:We have a waste heat recovery boiler that is supplied by exhaust of a 20MW Gas Turbine. We've seen that at lower turbine loads (75% and below)...
I came across an email that the ISA Honors & Awards Committee has selected the paper, Improving PID Control with Unreliable Communications, for its excellence in documentation award. Emerson's Deji Chen, Mark Nixon, Terry Blevins, Willy Wojsznis and the University...
In our continuing series of screencasts, I'm trying to give examples of how advanced diagnostics in Foundation fieldbus devices can be used in control strategies to avoid abnormal situations and potential losses in production. Emerson's Rune Reppenhagen shows in this...
For those of you challenged with the vagaries of pH control, I wanted to make sure you had seen the news of an upcoming pH Control web seminar, arranged by ISA, featuring ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan. The web seminar covers the root causes of poor...
Recently I discovered in my PAT RSS persistent search feed an article in Pharmaceutical Processing magazine entitled, PAT Solutions-Eight advanced process control technologies worth considering. This article was written by Rick Rys, President, at R2 Controls, and...
Batch process manufacturers have long understood that applications which require both sequential and continuous control have been a challenge. A typical example is a centrifuge application commonly found in Biotech and Pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. A...
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