I came across an interesting Emerson Exchange presentation, Model Predictive Control for Integrating Processes, by Emerson's Lou Heavner. You may recall Lou from several advanced control-related posts. Lou introduced the subject noting that historically, APC project...
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Neural Network for Product Quality Estimation
Neural networks, not the ones in our brains, but the ones that came out of the artificial intelligence research, began back in the 1940s. This advanced process control (APC) technology has been used in the process industries for many years for applications ranging...
Applying Advanced Process Control to Distillation Processes
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...
A View of MPC Control from Operations to Design
I caught up with Emerson's Lou Heavner the other day and we traded a few teenager "war stories." Lou is an advanced automation consultant and I've shared some of his expertise in posts over the years. He mentioned he had done a very basic presentation to show the...
More Ideas for Saving Energy in your Plant
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,...
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...
Recommendations for Increasing Heater Efficiency
A great question came in on the Operating Fired Heaters More Efficiently and Reliably blog post:Jim I work with natural draft heaters on a daily basis and have initiated several efficiency tests with improved burner internals. I am looking for an opportunity to...
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...
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,...
Wider Range of Blending Applications
I caught up with Lou Heavner who you may remember from an earlier model predictive control post. When it comes to blending operations in refineries, Lou knows this application very well. He's recently created a Blend Lite application which is a scaled down version of...
Optimizing Refineries with Model Predictive Control
One of the guys who has been around as long as I have is Lou Heavner, a Consultant in our Advanced Applied Technologies team. As an MIT graduate, he is one really sharp person, and also someone who can simplify and communicate complex ideas. I asked Lou about what...
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