Author: Lou Heavner 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 control (APC). Material Balance The level in the reflux accumulator […]
This will likely be a light posting week with travel and meetings. I’ll highlight some of the recent posts on some of the other Emerson Process Management blogs. Over at the Modeling and Control (RSS) blog, Terry Blevins has a post on ratio control. Terry opens: For many processes, such as blending and boiler combustion, […]
Update 2: The Modeling and Control blog has a nice deminar summary page with links to all the seminar/demos. Update and bump: Here is the video recording (download 645Mb) and presentation (download) for today’s demo/webinar: Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3. How to Setup and Adjust the Dynamic Compensation of […]
Emerson’s Terry Blevins and Mark Nixon‘s new book, Control Loop Foundation – Batch and Continuous Processes was highlighted in an earlier post here on the blog. As I noted in the post, the intent of the book was to give automation professionals a foundation in process control in subjects such as: …measurements, on-line analyzers, final […]
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 Learned? – Sharing Knowledge What Have I Learned? – Einstein and […]
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