A refinery produces many products, one of them petroleum coke. AFPM defines it: Petroleum coke (petcoke) is one of many valued consumer products produced during the oil refining process. Crude oil is processed into gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, lubricating oils and...
If you have an instrumentation and automation project for a new installation you are faced with many technology selection decisions. For instance, instrumentation based on digital communications technologies, which provide robust diagnostics and predictive...
So how exactly does Formula 1 (F1) racing compare with process manufacturing and production? It's an interesting question that Emerson's Mike Boudreaux explores in an Uptime magazine article, Chasing the Checkered Flag. In both cases, optimum performance results from...
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...
In the Process Control LinkedIn group, a question was asked: Positioners seem very popular now, but most lines with valves have flow meters attached. Won't a flow loop make the positioner redundant? When asked for clarification, the original poster explained: As far...
By: Jocelyn Sexton Monitoring a control system can pose many challenges. When dealing with numerous technologies and/or remote locations, operators can experience information overload. Technology is always evolving, and training costs can be high. And while 24x7x365...
The PID controller entry in Wikipedia highlights the beginning of proportional+integral+derivative control going all the way back to the 19th century: PID controllers date to 1890s governor design.[2][3] PID controllers were subsequently developed in automatic ship...
Lou Heavner explains how control has been traditionally performed on distillation columns.
I heard a great story about a resins manufacturer who was having some issues in meeting quality specifications due to temperature variability in the process. Emerson's Gergo Kertesz, whom you may recall from an Emerson Exchange presentation I liveblogged, shared this...
Author: Gordon Lawther In the world of aging automation systems and infrastructures, there are always new features and capabilities that we'd like to have. HMI's [human machine interfaces] more akin to our home computers, intuitive engineering tools with pre-defined...
Emerson's Chuck Miller presents on ways to find efficiency gains in the operations of gas plants. His abstract: Whether you are processing natural gas to create pipeline gas, recover the natural gas liquids or liquefying for export, ensuring contract specification is...
Emerson's Gergo Kertesz shared a story of how to get a plant started up and running with the aid of control loop tuning. His abstract: This Russian Petrochemical Company is one of the world's largest petrochemical complexes. The company specialises in the production...
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