Michael Brown Control Engineering

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www: www.controlloop.co.za
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Michael Brown's practical control courses
March 2012, Training & Education

Michael Brown is holding another series of his well known courses on practical process control. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of ...
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Control loop: case history 124 - no control problems in a perfect process plant!
March 2012, System Integration & Control Systems Design

No control problems in a perfect process plant!
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Control loop case history 123
January 2012, System Integration & Control Systems Design

I was recently requested to do a control performance audit on a mine situated in the Sahara Desert. The mine is run by expatriates from South Africa, Australia, USA, Philippines, France, Germany and Britain ...
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Control loop case history 122: Boiler drum level control: Part 2 - controlling swell and shrink
November 2011, System Integration & Control Systems Design

Basic configuration and test results of three-element control
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Michael Brown's practical control courses
October 2011, Training & Education

Michael Brown is holding another series of his well known courses on practical process control. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of ...
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Control loop case history 121: Boiler drum level control: Part 1 - controlling swell and shrink
October 2011, System Integration & Control Systems Design

Further to my requests in this magazine for people to contribute control experiences of their own to these Case History articles, I am very pleased to introduce this two-part article by Etienne Wannenburg ...
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Control loop case history 120 - Control loop optimisation: theory versus practice
September 2011, System Integration & Control Systems Design

Virtually all feedback control courses worldwide are presented theoretically. This is understandable, feedback control theory was largely developed back in the early 1900s by some of the world’s leading ...
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Control loop case history 119 - Tricky temperature control problems
July 2011, System Integration & Control Systems Design

The problem I was recently commissioned to investigate a heating problem by a client who tests ore samples by heating them to various temperatures. The heating rate is defined by either step changes ...
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Michael Brown's practical control courses
June 2011, Training & Education

Michael Brown is holding a series of his well known courses on practical process control in Johannesburg. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the ...
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Control loop case history 118: ‘Naughty’ valves that cause cycling in automatic
May 2011, System Integration & Control Systems Design

The elements of a control loop normally consist of the process itself, the measuring transmitter, the controller and the final control element. The latter, in the vast majority of loops, consists of an ...
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Michael Brown's practical control courses
March 2011, Training & Education

Michael Brown is holding a series of his well known courses on practical process control in Johannesburg. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the ...
read more


Control loop case history 117
March 2011, System Integration & Control Systems Design

I was recently performing some optimisation at a large chemical plant and was reminded that during the daily hustle and bustle and general high pressure of an instrument and control practitioner, one ...
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