Process Control
Rethink your liquid-liquid separations
A fresh look investigates general principles in designing process coalescers
Unifying framework for six sigma and process control
The advances presented will improve quality and productivity
IT/automation convergence revisited
Keeping automation close-coupled to operation is key
HP Control: APC designs for minimum maintenance—Part 1
I, and others, have written much about the difficulties of maintaining advanced process control (APC) applications.1–5 It is a problem to be tackled on many levels. There are issues of manning, t..
Re-evaluate your expansion projects for the new global market
Tighter economic conditions require refiners to reconsider benchmark and optimization tools for revamps
How to select the better liquid-level measurement system
Here is a closer look at commonly used sensors
Computational fluid dynamics simulation of solid–liquid slurry flow
The resulting model's predictions showed reasonably good agreement with the experimental data
Wireless networks improve refinery operation
Smart instruments and secure wireless communications enable enhanced operations and asset management
OPC UA: an end user's perspective
The updated specification relies on Web services for its data transportation providing significant advantages
Soft sensor modeling using artificial neural networks
Here are guidelines for proper construction
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