Mar
08
Emerson is one of the industrial sponsors of the Texas -Wisconsin – California Control Consortium (TWCCC). As explained on the TWCCC web site, this consortium carries out joint industrial-academic research in the areas of chemical process modeling, monitoring, control and optimization. The consortium meetings are scheduled periodically and rotated between the Texas, Wisconsin and California. …
Mar
01
The IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control, PID’12, will be held in Brescia, Italy on March 28-30, 2012. As noted on the conference web site, the aim of this conference is to gather academic and industrial experts in the field in order to present the recent research developments in the design of PID controllers. …
Jan
19
We conclude with a summary on how you can avoid bursts of oscillations, get to setpoint faster, choose the right execution time and filter, coordinate the speed of loops, optimize operations without while protecting equipment, provide a consistent flow response for model predictive control, eliminate limit cycles, and improve analyzer and wireless control loops (all …
Dec
26
The number of registered participants at Emerson Exchange, 2011 exceeded 2,900 people. In technical sessions, over 300 papers were presented on a wide variety of topics. At Emerson Exchange the DeltaV future architecture team often presents papers on field trail results associated with prototypes of new technology and applications that we have developed. For example, …
Dec
19
As addressed in my December 12th blog posting, James Beall and I presented Part 1 of this presentation on Friday morning at Emerson Exchange, 2011 in a “meet the expert” workshop. Part 2 was not presentation at Emerson Exchange because of time limitation. In this continuation of the presentation we address when it is possible …
Dec
12
At Emerson Exchange, 2011, I had the pleasure of working with James Beall, Principal Control Consultant, Emerson Process Management to host a workshop that addresses how to get the maximum return from your control investment. The design and commissioning of the controls associated with a continuous or batch process directly impact plant operating efficiency and …
Nov
28
At Emerson Exchange, 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Frank Seibert, Technical Manager and Eric Chen, Associate Researcher, Pickle Research Center, University of Texas at Austin SRP and John Caldwell, Advanced Control Marketing Manage, and Willy Wojsznis, Senior Technologist, Emerson Process Management, to host a workshop that addresses how data analytics may be …
Nov
10
The capability of field instrumentation, distributed control systems, and advanced process control (APC) software has dramatically increased. At the same time, energy and environmental requirements and the need for worldwide competitiveness have increased. Production units more than ever need to be able to take advantage of their automation and APC systems. Yet there is a …
Oct
17
This year Emerson Exchange will be held October 24-28 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Emerson Exchange is a forum for the free exchange of non-proprietary information among the global user community of all Emerson Process Management’s products and services. The technical sessions in this conference cover a wide range of industry …
Sep
29
Batch and fed-batch reactors are designed so that the product concentration is always increasing in the reaction phase of the cycle whereas continuous reactors are designed to hold a constant product concentration. These fundamental differences have enormous implications in terms of composition control. Conventional control of product concentration in a batch and fed-batch reactor is …
