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Fitting the Workplace to the Worker Process Industry Control Rooms Would Be Designed a Whole Lot Differently if Air-Traffic Controllers Were Working in Them |
08/25/2008 |
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Right Vacuum Control Choice Takes the Pressure Off Choosing the proper recycle stream for regulation is crucial |
08/07/2008 |
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Are your heat exchanger calculations really right? Commercial programs give dramatically different pressure drop results |
07/16/2008 |
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A four-phase risk reduction strategy can play a crucial role |
07/16/2008 |
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Understand where your plant can achieve benefits from a digital fieldbus |
07/11/2008 |
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06/30/2008 |
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Make the most of control system migration The right strategy may lead to significant improvements in plant performance |
06/17/2008 |
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Plants can solve a range of problems by leveraging design models |
06/04/2008 |
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Simulation Software Rocks for Training, but Its Benefits Go Way Beyond Teaching to Aiding Design, Optimization, Maintenance and Life-Cycle Management. Heres How Savvy Users are Gaining Simulations Full Advantages |
04/24/2008 |
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Loggers Keep Feeding Data-Hungry Users Recorders and DAQs Have Survived the Advent of PCs, Adapted to Cooperate with Software-Based Historians and Continue to Serve in Applications Where Computers Can't Go |
04/24/2008 |
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Control performance supervision enhances revamp Upgraded ethylene cracker achieves targeted production rates in record time |
04/14/2008 |
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Achieve effective heat exchanger control This first article in a four-part series explores the nuances of steam supply control |
03/14/2008 |
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Make the Most of Automation Upgrades Avoid common mistakes that undermine projects. |
01/23/2008 |
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Improve control loop performance Specification of control valves doesnt adequately emphasize the very basic requirement that valve position respond in a timely manner or even at all leading to process variability. |
10/18/2007 |
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Complimentary design software for tower internals Sign-up for design software from Sulzer Chemtech. |
09/17/2007 |
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Membrane Boasts Material Benefits As economical separation of contaminants from natural gas becomes increasingly important, simulation eases the design of innovative module to remove carbon dioxide. Membranes offer potential advantages over other methods. |
09/11/2007 |
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The Seven rules for successful simulation need to be revisited and revised because of advancements in computers. Simulations that once took weeks to compute an answer now take mere hours. |
09/06/2007 |
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Despite its 30-plus-year history, advanced process control (APC) applications remain few and far between, but it doesnt need to be that way. Dave Harrold, cofounder of the AFAB Group, reports. |
06/01/2007 |
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Control valves for slurry service In this installment of Ask The Experts, noted process control authority and CONTROL Columnist Béla Lipták and his cadre of automation experts answer a readers question regarding control valves for slurry services. |
05/01/2007 |
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May Process Puzzler: Quick fix needed! Readers recommend solutions for a pump control problem in this month's Chemical Processing Process Puzzler. |
04/24/2007 |
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