For U.S. refiners, the bulk of project spending is on core business drivers including safety, environmental performance, and reliability programs. Projects that optimize performance and improve energy efficiency often don't make the cut. At the AIChE National Spring...
I wanted to welcome a new blogger to the family of Emerson Process Management bloggers. Emerson's Mark Nixon joins Terry Blevins and Greg McMillan over at the Modeling and Control blog. You may recall Mark from some earlier posts on this blog. I've known Mark for many...
I caught up with Emerson's James Beall, a principal process control consultant who helps manufacturers optimize their processes. You may recall James from numerous control performance-related posts. If you ever attend an Emerson Exchange conference, James is one of...
I plucked this story from a growing and vibrant, "inside the Emerson firewall" community. This community connects Emerson global sales, project, and application folks together, primarily to ask about references--"has this has been integrated with that" sort of...
I saw some startling facts in a presentation by Emerson's Pete Sharpe, whom you may recall from many process optimization-related posts. This week he visited The Automation Group (TAG) office in Houston, to discuss distillation and fired heater optimization. I was...
Update and bump: Greg's article is now live on the ISA.org InTech website. Below is the original Dec. 15, 2009 post. I received an advanced copy of an article ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan has recently completed, Exceptional Opportunities for Smart Wireless...
Here's another great presentation from the recent Emerson Exchange from refining & chemicals industry solutions director, Pete Sharpe. You may recall Pete from earlier process optimization-related posts. His presentation, SmartProcess Distillation Application...
At last week's Emerson Exchange, John Rezabek of ISP presented Wireless or Fieldbus? You might recall John from his columns in Control magazine and on the ControlGlobal.com site. He presented a cost comparison for a plant expansion considering Foundation fieldbus...
We're now inside of a week from the Emerson Exchange conference in Orlando. One of the sessions I definitely plan on visiting is one by Dr. Frank Seibert of the University of Texas at Austin and Emerson technologists, Terry Blevins and Mark Nixon. Their presentation,...
For those attending the Emerson Exchange with distillation processes, you don't want to miss Emerson's Lou Heavner's presentation, Advanced Distillation - 102. Lou is an advanced control consultant, whom you may recall from earlier posts. He'll be presenting Wed, 9/30...
My colleague, Deb Franke, pointed me to a great article in her RSS feeds. The ChemicalProcessing.com article, Innovative Fixes for Saving Energy in Plants, describes some ideas to help reduce plant energy costs. Although energy costs have come down in recent weeks,...
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...
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