Michael Brown is holding a series of his well-known ESETA accredited courses on practical process control in Johannesburg. The courses are unique in the world and are invaluable to novices, as well as ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well-known courses on practical process control in Durban and Johannesburg. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners ...
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Case History 82 People often ask me if I find the same sort of problems in plants in countries other than Africa. My reply to this is that in every plant, in every country that I have visited, there ...
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Readers occasionally e-mail Michael Brown with questions after reading his articles. Michael felt - and I agree - that by publishing some of the discussion, it would probably be of value to others who ...
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Michael Brown, in association with Crusader Systems, runs ESETA accredited training courses from training centres and as well as in clients' plants, where students can have the added benefit of practising ...
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A feedback controller effectively calculates the amount of product that is required to be fed into the process. If, for example, the output (process demand - PD) of the controller is sitting at 50%, the ...
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Based on my experience in every one of the several hundred plants where I have performed optimisation, less than 5% of all loops in automatic operate at all effectively. ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well-known courses on practical process control in Johannesburg. The courses are unique in the world and are invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners ...
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Over the many years that I have been writing these articles in the Case Histories series, the one theme that re-occurs very frequently is problems encountered with valves. In recent years I have been ...
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In the previous Case History article, published in the May 2004 issue, some of the control problems encountered on the first visit to optimise two reheat furnaces in a steel plant were described. Open ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well-known courses on practical process control in Johannesburg and Richards Bay. Unique in the world, these courses are invaluable to novices and experienced ...
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A few months ago I was commissioned to optimise the controls of two large reheat furnaces in a steel manufacturing plant. The client was aware that furnaces were consuming gas at a rate that was very ...
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