This week I completed a model with the help of Roger Reedy that allowed me to confirm some concepts besides detail how the design of the control system can cut a project cost almost in half by the use of 10,000 gallon instead of 40,000 gallon neutralization tanks. It wasn’t an easy pH control application …
Monthly Archive: July 2008
Jul
18
Is This the Time – Part 3?
The process of creating a model is in itself a knowledge building activity because it makes you think through first principal and dynamic relationships. Often insight into the problem is gained before the model is completed but then again there are the surprises from the test runs of the models due to the interactions and …
Jul
10
Is This the Time – Part 2?
I remember my very first time …. for simulation ….. for processes …. for chemical not biological. I was working as lead instrument and electrical engineer on what was then the largest acrylonitrile and hydrogen cyanide plant in the world and I decided maybe the huge compressor that provided the air for reaction with propylene …
Jul
01
Is this the Time – Part 1?
Is this the time for process and automation system designs to minimize dead time and interactions? Is this the time for university graduates to understand controller modes and parameters and the power of the DCS environment? Is it possible for these graduates to know how to tune a controller with non perfect mixing, measurements, and …
