Environment & Safety Gas Processing/LNG Maintenance & Reliability Petrochemicals Process Control Process Optimization Project Management Refining
HomeProcess Control

Process Control

Foundation fieldbus helps meet regulatory and profitability challenges

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
Fieldbus Foundation: Glanzer, D. A.
Process Control / Information Systems

The technology simplifies field-level communications and provides new functionality

Getting started with fieldbus – a primer

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control: Wheatman, S.
Process Control / Information Systems

Use these guidelines to set up an experimental Foundation fieldbus system

Intrinsically-safe fieldbus provides chemical plant savings

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
Wacker-Chemie: Krummen, H.
Process Control / Information Systems

Similar conventional and fieldbus installations are compared

Lube oil blending plant revamps with fieldbus

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
Deutsche Shell AG: Jacobs, P.
Process Control / Information Systems

The technology provided 3% capital savings, as well as ongoing engineering and maintenance benefits

PROFIBUS International – a strong community

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
PROFIBUS International: Volz, M.
Process Control / Information Systems

This fieldbus organization provides many services and benefits

HP Control: Consider other control system benefits

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Kane, L.
Process Control

In spite of remarkable advances in control systems, multivariable control algorithms, intelligent field devices, process modeling techniques, information system integration and user experience,1 quant..

HPInternet: Primarily Petroliana

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
Competitive Analysis Technologies: Crowley, B.
Process Control

Primarily Petroliana (http://www.oldgas.com/) is a site you won't normally stumble across. It is a site to visit that brings back memories of the oil industry's golden days. You can buy memorabilia li..

Fieldbus improves petrochemical plant operation - Fig 2

Hydrocarbon Processing / May 1999
Smar Equipmentos Industriais: Castilho, L.
Deten Chemicals S. A.: Cruz, O.
Smar International Co.: Evans, D.
Process Control / Information Systems

Fig. 2. System management is carried out over a network with ..

HP Control: Moving control into the field

Hydrocarbon Processing / April 1999
Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Kane, L.
Process Control

I recently turned into our Production Dept. the articles for our May supplement, Fieldbus Technology. It will be mailed to readers of Gulf Publishing Co.'s three magazines – Hydrocarbon Processin..

HPInternet: OilMonitor

Hydrocarbon Processing / April 1999
Competitive Analysis Technologies: Crowley, B.
Process Control

The folks at PricewaterhouseCoopers have created a Web site that is useful to the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI), especially those running crude units and buying crude. The product is called Oi..