Optimizing power plant control systems can be challenging, but new tools are available to simplify and improve the process. On this episode of The POWER Podcast, Executive Editor Aaron Larson ...

Every plant in the process industry most likely has several control loops that do not perform well. Although there are many factors that may negatively affect control loop performance, a few of these ...

However, the diagnosis and resolution of control loop problems are difficult, particularly in large and complex process facilities such as power plants. Several control loop performance-monitoring ...

Mark Coughran, a senior process control consultant with Emerson Process Management, has optimized the performance of control loops in 84 process plants around the world. Typical results include ...

When working with continuous process control loops, you are “bumping the system.” If you can't manually force the system to respond to your input, you probably have a problem with the outputs. If the ...

PROCESS CONTROL-Conclusion: Ethylene plant uses best practices to improve controller performance. ... Performance Assessment of Control Loops: Theory and Applications, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Sometimes it can feel like PID tuning is a cross between engineering, mathematics, and the Dark Arts. There are some definitive engineering and mathematical steps to take when tuning a loop (for the ...

Feedback Loops Build a Smarter Plant. Nov. 21, 2022. ... it provides an effective stepping stone to an automated learning process. It also keeps the control in the hands of the engineers, ...

Practical process control techniques including tuning single proportional integral derivative controllers, choosing appropriate control loops for a processing plant and measurement instrumentation. An ...

CM 4110 - Unit and Plant Operations Laboratory I. A capstone laboratory course that provides a rigorous introduction to experiments focused in the unit operations of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, ...