A quick look at the headlines shows energy prices continuing their high levels. For most process manufacturers, energy is one of the highest operating expenses. I was in meetings last week with several of the industry consultants highlighted on this blog including...
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Tuning Considerations in Surge Tank Level Control
Chemical Processing magazine has a great article, Be Levelheaded About Surge-Tank Control. I shared it with Emerson's James Beall asking for his thoughts. He noted that surge tank level control is a common application in many of the process industries. Often a surge...
Interesting and Useful DeltaV PID Functions Livestream
Here is our second Emerson Exchange Livestream offering, courtesy of Emerson's James Beall, whom you may recall from earlier control performance posts. His Emerson Exchange presentation was Interesting and Useful Features of the DeltaV PID, Ratio and Bias/Gain Control...
Efficiently Cracking Hydrocarbons in Ethylene Furnaces
A few weeks ago, I relayed a story from Emerson's James Beall about a process of ongoing plant control performance improvements on which he's been working with a process manufacturer. He said he had another great story about an ethylene furnace optimization project....
Ongoing Control Performance Improvements
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...
Tips When Using DeltaV PID Control
Last year I summarized an Emerson Exchange presentation by James Beall, Advanced PID Functions for Improved Control Performance. At this year's Emerson Exchange, he did a reprise version, Interesting and Useful Features of the DeltaV PID Controller. I'll highlight...
Reasons to Come to the Emerson Exchange
In these challenging economic times, it can be difficult to justify attendance at conferences, which can enhance your skills and abilities to resolve issues with your manufacturing process. The Emerson Exchange board recently put a list of reasons why you should...
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...
For These Economic Times, Squeeze More Out Of Your Process
One only has to come across reports like the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing ISM Report On Business to see the slowing global economic conditions. The report notes: Manufacturing activity continued to decline at a rapid rate during the month of...
Advanced PID Functions for Improved Control Performance
I saw Emerson's James Beall the other week and asked him for a copy of his Emerson Exchange presentation, Interesting and Useful Features of the DeltaV PID Controller. Every year, James presents to standing-room-only crowds and his presentation (given twice) this year...
Start with the Basics to Reduce Process Variability
James Beall delivered a Back to the Basics - Process Control Diagnostics Improves Refinery Performance presentation at the recent AIChE spring meeting. James, whom you may recall from earlier variability management posts, is a principal process control consultant....
Vessel Level Control Can Reduce Process Variability
Like capacitors do for electrical circuits, vessel levels provide capacity that can absorb variability within the process. In many cases, a properly tuned level controller can make the variability of the vessel outflow can be much less than the variability vessel...
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