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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Estimating the Financial Benefits in Variability Reduction
I received an email from a university student with a great question the other day. It prompted a great answer from Pete Sharpe, a Principal Advanced Automation Consultant. You may recall Pete from earlier posts on process optimization. I've retained the anonymity of...
Employing Collaborative Measurement Strategies
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...
Applying Advanced Control in Batch Applications
Continuous manufacturing processes have long benefited from the application of advanced process control (APC) in their processes to improve upon their regulatory control. Batch manufacturing processes have recently been able to take advantage of these technologies. I...
Refiner Creates Property Estimators with Neural Networks
Last October, I featured one of Emerson's advanced automation service consultants, Lou Heavner, and how he worked with Lukoil to create virtual sensors based on neural networks. Their efforts were told in more detail in the March 2007 issue of InTech magazine. The...
Mynah Simulation Consultant Joins Blogging Fray
The folks at Mynah Technologies with their Mimic simulation software, virtual I/O network gateways, PLC I/O interfaces and host of drivers for the DeltaV system continue to build conversations through their forums and experts blogs within the forum. Recently Dr....
Virtual Sensors Improve Quality in Refinery Crude Unit
Emerson's Lou Heavner, a consultant on the Advanced Automation Services team, recently co-authored a paper, Using Neural Network Technology for Virtual Sensing in Crude Refining Units, at the recent ISA EXPO 2006. Lou worked with engineers from Russian oil refiner,...
Abnormal Situation Prevention in Refinery Units
From my days as a young systems engineer working on offshore oil & gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, I know that abnormal situations in our processes are something we all wish to avoid. A 1999 study by the ASM consortium estimated $10 billion USD in losses for U.S....
Distillation Column Energy Savings
I had the chance to catch up with James Beall while he was here in Austin for meetings. You may remember James from an earlier post of a refiner in dire need of process stabilization assistance. James will be presenting a paper at the rapidly approaching Emerson...
Using Model Predictive Control to Reduce Steam Usage in Distillation Columns
A continuing theme to several of these blog posts is how process manufacturers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency in these times of high energy costs. One way to do this is to optimize the steam required for a distillation process. I caught up with Pete...
Stabilization Expertise Needed ASAP
I heard a story of a tremendous effort from our advanced applied technology experts to help a refiner stabilize his units after a restart. I went to the source, James Beall who is the team leader of our U.S. Control Performance team. It turns out that he is the one...
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