While we focus heavily on technical process automation-related subjects here on the blog, financial-related ones are critically important. I mention this because Emerson's Doug White will be presenting Making Operations Predictable Through Automation: The True Cost,...
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Control Valve Impact on Process Variability
The March/April edition of Intech magazine features an article by ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan--Key design components of final control elements. The article is derived from Greg's new book, Essentials of Modern Measurements and Final Elements in the Process...
Control Valves in Process Uptime
OK, the folks in Emerson's Fisher valve division get pretty excited about control valves, but do you? Control valves, after all, have been around for a while: The concept of a control valve goes at least as far back as the bronze plug cocks used by the Romans in their...
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...
A Few Tips to Optimize Your Process
I've featured quite a number of experts around Emerson over these past three years. Some categories, like Process Optimization, have more than 50 posts. There is quite a bit of wisdom mixed in all those posts. A few months ago, I was asked by Plant Engineering...
Estimating the Financial Benefits in Variability Reduction
I received an email from a university student with a great question the other day. It prompted a great answer from Pete Sharpe, a Principal Advanced Automation Consultant. You may recall Pete from earlier posts on process optimization. I've retained the anonymity of...
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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