October 2017
Special Focus: Process Control and Instrumentation
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.
The Authors
Allan Kern is the owner of APC Performance LLC. He has more than 30 yr of advanced process control (APC) experience and has authored numerous papers on effective, low-maintenance APC solutions. He is the inventor of patented Rate-Predictive Control (RPC), industry’s only inherently adaptive control algorithm; and of XMC, industry’s only model-less method of multivariable control. Mr. Kern holds professional engineering licenses in control systems and chemical engineering, is a senior member of the International Society of Automation (ISA) and is a 1981 graduate of the University of Wyoming.
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