Process Control
Roundtable: The reality of process safety risk
Unavoidably, process safety risks are often managed in different parts of an organization.
The next generation of advanced process control
In this article, Hydrocarbon Processing provides published references on model-based control, and contributing author Allan Kern presents his views on model-less control.
Optimizing ethylene production with laser technology
Ethylene is one of the most valuable organic compound building blocks in the world.
Siemens, PAS announce partnership to provide industrial control system cybersecurity
Siemens and PAS Global, a provider of industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity solutions, announced an agreement to provide fleet-wide, real time monitoring for control systems.
Baker Hughes, KBC partner on integrated process, operational software solutions
PARIS — Baker Hughes, a GE company and KBC a wholly owned subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, announced a preferred partnership that will provide a combination of process simulation, asset performance management and operational software solutions to the oil and gas industry.
Emerson launches industry-first controller for automation versatility, IIoT-enabled operations
AUSTIN, Texas — Emerson is launching the DeltaV PK Controller, making the advanced automation of its DeltaV distributed control system (DCS) available to fast-growth industries traditionally less reliant on large-scale automation.
Iron poisoning investigations enable opportunities for success
The function of fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) is to maximize profits from a given barrel of oil.
Schneider Electric, Claroty partner to address safety, cybersecurity challenges
NEW YORK — Claroty, in Operational Technology (OT) network protection, and Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, announced that they are partnering to address safety and cybersecurity challenges for the world's industrial infrastructure.
The lost art of proportional band, and the accidental art of performance monitoring
Most control engineers know that proportional band and controller gain are largely interchangeable terms—both terms refer to the proportional setting of a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller and are commonly used by control system manufacturers.
Identify the cause of liquid maldistribution inside packed beds
Diagnosing liquid maldistribution problems inside packed beds that can cause mass transfer efficiency loss is a challenge to process engineers.
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