When the plant is not running the way it should, with excessive variability, alarm conditions or sub-optimized performance, plant engineers often connect with the Emerson Production Performance consultants. I had the opportunity to sit down and record a podcast with Emerson’s James Beall who is a member of the team.
Emerson’s James Beall presented Novel Techniques to Improve Polymer Reactor Tuning at AIChE virtual conference based on a project he worked on. Reactor control is complex with many interactions between control loops. The way to tackle this challenge is to start by identifying the process dynamics and create a realistic process simulation to identify improvements in the control strategy to address the complexities.
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...
In many specialty chemical and pharmaceutical batch processes, you'll find classic cascade and split-range control strategies used on vessel jacket heating and cooling. I caught up with Emerson's Mark Coughran on a recent visit that he and Guillermo Bravo had...
Some of my favorite posts are ones that come out of a string of problem-solving email messages. And so it is with today's post. Emerson's Mark Coughran was recently at biopharmaceutical facility that was having temperature control issues on a reactor vessel. The...
Author: Sonal Gilani Thermal oxidizers are used to destroy the waste gases containing volatile organic compounds (VOC) and volatile hazardous air pollutants (HAP) by raising the temperature of the material above its auto ignition point in the presence of oxygen. The...
This time of year, after our big Emerson Exchange conference, I like to go back and see what sessions I missed to be able to be able to recap for you. I caught up with Emerson's Mark Coughran, whom you may recall from many control performance-related posts. He...
Effectively controlling the drum level in an industrial boiler helps to maximize overall energy efficiency. When the drum level varies it can not only impact boiler efficiency, but overall reliability due to unplanned shutdowns. Emerson's Mark Coughran shared a story...
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