This is the third article taken from a report which was prepared for various departments in a process company after some optimisation work was performed for them. (The other two articles were published ...
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The first part of a report, published in Case History 140 (February), showed successes obtained and problems uncovered in an optimisation exercise in a particular process plant that takes optimisation ...
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Michael Brown’s well known courses on practical process control are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of regulatory control optimisation. They offer ...
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There is a particular continuous process plant in South Africa that takes base layer control loop optimisation extremely seriously. (Many other plants unfortunately do not, which to me is terribly sad.) ...
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Michael Brown’s well known courses on practical process control are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of regulatory control optimisation. They offer ...
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One of the first laws of process control states that you cannot control what you cannot measure. However, although instrument practitioners all know this they very often forget it. I think this is largely ...
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Michael Brown’s well known courses on practical process control are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of regulatory control optimisation. They offer ...
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Michael Brown’s well known courses on practical process control are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of regulatory control optimisation. They offer ...
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Alarm management has become a subject of interest in many plants. With the advent of computerised control and HMI systems, it has become extremely easy to put alarms onto control loops. Nowadays operators ...
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Michael Brown’s well known courses on practical process control are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practition-ers in the field of regulatory control optimisation. They offer ...
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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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I have written much in the past about the peculiar problems inherent to integrating processes. The most commonly found of these are level controls, but some pressure control loops, particularly those ...
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