Information Systems
Fault-tolerant control protects processes and products
The benefits include automatic recovery from faults, improved safety and prevention of severe product contamination
Improve speed and convergence of distillation column simulation
The proposed bounding method significantly improves performance
Improving refinery reliability, performance and utilization
A new digital control system incorporating fieldbus provided substantial benefits
Gage multivariable predictive control motility to guide support
Manipulated variable analysis is much simpler than controlled variable analysis for determining controller health
Probabilistic alarm management
A procedure using Markov chains provides insights based on HAZOP report information
Optimizing wireless systems in hydrocarbon processing plants
Here's how to manage the many disparate technologies
Intrinsically safe fieldbus for hydrocarbon processing plants
The key issue is delivering enough power to a large number of field devices
Effective pH control through intelligent automation
This technology can improve reliability while reducing operating costs
Zero-lag exponential moving average for real-time control and noisy data processing
The filtering technology has no time delay
Model-free adaptive control technology enables ethylene quench water pH control
PetroChina has improved ethylene production efficiency and plant safety
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