In my December 18 blog “Linear in a Nonlinear World” we discussed the use of signal characterization to compensate for the installed characteristic of the control valve where the valve gain depends upon the operating point on the control valve characteristic. In part II we are looking at the use of signal characterization to compensate …
Monthly Archive: March 2007
Mar
21
World Batch Forum PAT Webcast
I just completed today a World Batch Forum (WBF) Webcast on Process Analytical Technology (PAT). The Webcast was fun and I can see where it opens up a whole new avenue of education even though the technology is not quite as far along as I expected. The Webcast went well thanks to the help of …
Mar
16
Back to the Future of Tuning
New adaptive controllers are coming soon to your control room to individually schedule the tuning as a function of any variable. So given all the choices, what process variable generally works best taking into account what we have recently learned about mixing and process dynamics? The short answer is controller output for continuous processes and …
Mar
05
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Most of the literature makes valve nonlinearity seem bad or just plain ugly. However, if you take into account process dynamics and valve stick-slip, you might actually consider valve nonlinearity as good in some applications. So before we continue on to a discussion of the implications of mixing on tuning next week, let’s consider the …
