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Apr 2018
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How Do I Detect Valve Issues and Prevent Failures?

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Mar 2016
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Anticipating Equipment Failure Using Predictive Analytics

Our White Papers, Uncategorized Control Guru

Asset maintenance and reliability are topics regularly covered in trade publications, around the water cooler, and in budget planning sessions.  For those that walk the plant floor, however, those same […]

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24
Mar 2016
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Utilizing Power Spectrum to Isolate Persistent Control Problems and to Improve Plant Profitability

Our White Papers, Uncategorized Control Guru

Control problems range from malfunctioning valves to clogged heat exchangers along with most everything in between. Identifying such problems efficiently and isolating their source is typically a tedious task. This […]

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24
Mar 2016
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Modeling Non-Steady State Data for PID Controller Tuning in a Cogeneration Power Plant

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A 25 MW combined-cycle cogeneration plant at the University of Connecticut supplies electricity to the entire UConn campus with three natural gas combustion turbine generators and one high pressure steam […]

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Mar 2016
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Demystifying Performance Assessment Techniques

Our White Papers, Uncategorized Control Guru

Real-time performance monitoring to identify poorly or under-performing loops has become an integral part of preventative maintenance. Among others, rising energy costs and increasing demand for improved product quality are […]

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Mar 2016
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Model-Based Tuning Methods For PID Controllers

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The manner in which a measured process variable responds over time to changes in the controller output signal is fundamental to the design and tuning of a PID controller. The […]

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24
Mar 2016
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Reducing Energy Cost Through Improved Disturbance Rejection

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Two of the most popular architectures for improving regulatory performance and increasing profitability are 1) cascade control and 2) feed forward with feedback trim. Both architectures trade off additional complexity […]

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24
Mar 2016
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Evolving Best-Practices Through Simulation-Based Training: Training The Field Operator Of The Future

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Simulators are widely recognized as essential to process control training as they facilitate the propagation of a company’s standard operating procedure (SOPs). According to process industry estimates, nearly $8 Billion in […]

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09
Apr 2015
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PI Control of the Integrating Pumped Tank Process

Integrating (Non Self Regulating) Processes, Uncategorized controlguru

By Bob Rice1 and Doug Cooper The control objective for the pumped tank process is to maintain liquid level at set point by adjusting the discharge flow rate out of […]

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09
Apr 2015
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Analyzing Pumped Tank Dynamics with a FOPDT Integrating Model

Integrating (Non Self Regulating) Processes, Uncategorized controlguru

By Bob Rice1 and Doug Cooper Integrating (or non-self regulating) processes display counter-intuitive behaviors that make them surprisingly challenging to control. In particular, they do not naturally settle out to […]

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