McBul, S.
Saqib McBul is the Head of process control and digitization at OQ Specialty Chemicals’ Oman refinery and petrochemicals complex. He has served in various plants helping owner-operators in the hydrocarbon processing industry increase their bottom lines using regulatory and advanced process control, manufacturing execution and digital information systems. Mcbul is the founder of Apex Digitization.
Strategies to resolve process variability via regulatory process control
This article discusses strategies to address process instability for effective process control.
The process control journey: Advanced process control—Part 2
Part 1 of this article, “The process control journey: Primary process control—Part 1” appeared in the August issue of Hydrocarbon Processing and discussed the performance and stability of complex-wide primary (PID) control.
The process control journey: Primary process control—Part 1
When addressing process controls, the immediate interest is to invest in advanced process control (APC) technology without knowing the performance and stability of complex wide primary (PID) control.
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