One of the great things social networks have opened up is the ability to you to view into events without being there. Where it's an announcement of a new product from Apple or an event like our Emerson Exchange conferences, you can follow the action through various...
Lou Heavner
Optimizing Multi-well Gas Lift Operations
As oil prices have remained lower for many months, many oil & gas producers have shifted their priorities from new production to optimizing existing production and reducing operating costs with the assets currently in place. In the quick, 2-minute video,...
Offshore Technology Conference and Emerson Experts
For oil and gas professionals, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is one of the offshore energy industry's top events. It is taking place next week, May 4-7 in Houston, Texas. I'll be there to cover some of the happenings on Monday. We'll have many of the oil...
Contrasting Advance Regulatory and Advanced Process Control
I wanted to bring additional visibility to a great thread in the LinkedIn Process Control group on advanced regulatory control versus advanced process control. The post, So, ARC Can "Replace" APC? is based on a blog post, Advanced regulatory versus model-predictive...
Is Loop Tuning an Art or Science?
This interesting question was posed in the LinkedIn Process Control group. You'll need to join this 31,000+ member group to see it, but the exact question was: Process Control Tuning - is not just science but an art. The real talent to be process control engineer lies...
Distillation Column Control Basics – Part 3
Part 1 in the series addressed basic distillation column control and Part 2 explored inferential composition measurement and control design. In today's post I share how we need to consider how to close the material balance and the application of advanced process...
Distillation Column Control Basics – Part 2
In part 1, we looked at how control has been traditionally performed on distillation columns. We'll look at some improvements in today's post. Inferential Composition Measurement One thing required for distillation column control is product quality measurement. This...
Distillation Column Control Basics – Part 1
Lou Heavner explains how control has been traditionally performed on distillation columns.
Adjusting Model Predictive Controller Response
Knowledge sharing need not be limited to one week conferences like the recent Emerson Exchange conference. I mention this to highlight an excellent discussion thread in Emerson Experts Forum in the Emerson Exchange 365 community. The thread, MPC [Model Predictive...
Expanding the Use of DeltaV Advanced Control
Friday is a Meet the Experts day at Emerson Exchange where a multitude of panels are assembled to field questions from the user community. I'm in the "Expanding the Use of DeltaV Advanced Control" panel with a great line up of advanced control technologists and...
Regulatory and Model Predictive Control Difference?
Over in LinkedIn's Process Control group, a question was asked: What is the difference between regulatory and model predictive control. Is it possible that MPC work as stand alone without regulatory control? Emerson's Chowyang Neo offered: Regulatory Control generally...
How Good is Your Level Control?
So asks Emerson's Lou Heavner in a thought-provoking post in the DeltaV track of the Emerson Exchange 365 community. Lou opens: Is it good enough? Is it too good? Do you even know? Should you care?Well yes, you probably should care. Most level processes are...
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