ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan is resuming his demo/seminar (a.k.a. deminar) series tomorrow, August 11, 2010. The subject will be reducing batch cycle time and startup time for true integrating processes through improved PID control. The deminar will begin at...
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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...
Process Automation Hall of Famer Willy Wojsznis and Advanced Control
At the recent WBF North American Conference here in Austin, Texas, Emerson's Willy Wojsznis was honored by being inducted into ControlGlobal.com's Process Automation Hall of Fame. He joins Terry Blevins and Greg McMillan from the Emerson team in receiving this honor....
Improved, Efficient Crude Fractionation Unit Operation
I plucked this story from a growing and vibrant, "inside the Emerson firewall" community. This community connects Emerson global sales, project, and application folks together, primarily to ask about references--"has this has been integrated with that" sort of...
Biomass Fuel in Alternative Energy Production
I caught up last week with Emerson's Al Novak. You may recall Al from some of our alternative fuels-related posts. He mentioned that they had another Alternative Fuels and Energy Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The focus of this summit was on using "biomass" feed...
Improved Distillation Column Recovery and Reduced Energy Usage
Here's another great presentation from the recent Emerson Exchange from refining & chemicals industry solutions director, Pete Sharpe. You may recall Pete from earlier process optimization-related posts. His presentation, SmartProcess Distillation Application...
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...
Bridging the Industry-Academia Gap
At the upcoming June 10-12, 2009 Automatic Control Conference, Emerson's Greg McMillan and Terry Blevins will be presenting, Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry. Describing this session, Greg wrote on the ModelingAndControl.com blog: The first semester I...
What Have I Learned? – Read Greg McMillan’s Blog
If you're a process automation professional and you haven't been following Greg McMillan on the ModelingAndControl.com blog and his "What Have I Learned?" series of posts, you're not in the flow of great knowledge sharing. Here's the current list of posts: What Have I...
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...
Dealing with Fixed Deadtime with the Smith Predictor Algorithm
I recently exchanged some emails with Emerson's Sergei Kuznetsov, part of TAG projects organization, and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sergei is principal control systems engineer, certified professional engineer, and has an MSEE degree. He shared with me an...
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