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Process Control

HP Control: 'Don't give me more data; give me more knowledge!'

Matrikon: Brown, M.

Any discussion of the use of plant operating data with management or operational staff will quickly spawn some variation on the above cliché--and the cliché is correct. The 1980s saw the evo..

Ultrasonic flowmeters solve molten sulfur flow and metering problems

Honeywell Chemical Co.: Affalter, R.
Krohne, Inc.: Tjemmes, M.

Benefits included less downtime and maintenance and improved accuracy

Improve polyethylene process control and product quality

National Chemical Laboratory: Badhe, Y. P.  |  Kulkarni, B. D.  |  Lonari, J.  |  Tambe, S. S.
Reliance Industries Ltd.: Deshmukh, S. V.  |  Ravichandran, S.  |  Valecha, N. K.

Using artificial intelligence-based sensors can improve costs

Optimize process performance with online pH sensors

Invensys Process Systems: Connelly, J. P.

Demanding applications need rugged hardware to improve reliability

Fieldbus reinstrumentation project yields significant benefits

Yokogawa Corp. of America: Lau, C.
Shell Oil Co.: Medina, M.

Here's how Shell upgraded from a pneumatic instrumented plant to a fully digital control system

OPC enables interoperability

Matrikon: Murphy, E.

The latest enhancement improves communication from the field to enterprise levels

Consider a satellite-based communications backup system

Spacenet: Myers, D.

This refiner lost communications during a hurricane. Here's how it solved the problem

EDDL: improved interoperability, better integration

Fieldbus Foundation: Tatum, B.

Industry standard technology offers powerful new features

HP Control: Inferential models that correlate but do not predict

Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.

A friend has asked me to help solve a dilemma. A neural net model developed in his plant had a near perfect fit against lab values but in spite of that the model's prediction ability was poor. I was s..

Perform automated distillations with fast gas chromatography

Arnel, Inc.: Wentzel, C. S.

Using this analytical technique can increase productivity