In today's competitive environment, process industry companies are focused on two key objectives: profitability and delivering value to customers. However, these objectives are often disparate goals ...
Across industries such as food processing, pulp and paper, ceramics, engineered wood, biomass, and chemicals, manufacturers ...
What is the best strategy to get the best rate of change in the PID for a manipulated variable, or is there a more elegant ...
In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...
Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...
The oil and gas industry involves capital intensive processes with continuous output. Raw materials, such as crude oil, are converted to petroleum products on a very large-scale, making process ...
New process device profiles have been added by ODVA to the EtherNet/IP specification to provide end users with another tool to help optimize plant operations. According to ODVA, the new process device ...
HOUSTON, July 5-- Chipeta Processing LLC, a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., has commissioned Converteam, Pittsburgh, a power-conversion specialist, to supply a complete variable-speed drive ...