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HP Control: APC for min maintenance or max profit? - Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2009
Clifftent Inc.: Latour, P. R.
Process Control

First, thanks to Dr. Y. Zak Friedman1 for referencing my July 1997 HP editorial.2 I commend him for using HP publications from more than a decade ago in his editorial. While I appreciate Dr. Friedman'..

HP Control: Temperature points on main fractionators

Hydrocarbon Processing / September 2009
Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.
Process Control

Main fractionators are distillation columns that handle wide boiling curve feeds, cutting it into several products. Almost every major refinery unit has such a column, all with similar design features..

HP Control: APC designs for minimum maintenance—Part 3

Hydrocarbon Processing / August 2009
Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.
Process Control

This is the third in a series of three editorials about designing advanced process control (APC) applications for an environment of little to no maintenance. Having lamented for years about APC applic..

HP Control: APC designs for minimum maintenance—Part 2

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2009
Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.
Process Control

My last month's editorial proposed that since our advanced process control (APC) applications are by and large under-maintained, these applications should be designed in the simplest possible way. The..

Optimize plant performance using dynamic simulation

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2009
Saudi Aramco: Al-Dossary, A.  |  Al-Juaid, M.
Snamprogetti: Brusamolino, C.  |  Meloni, R.
Hyperion Systems Engineering, Modeling and Simulation: Harismiadis, V. I.  |  Mertzanis, V.
Process Control / Process Optimization

This plant case history illustrates the benefits

Rethink your liquid-liquid separations

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2009
Koch-Glitsch, LP: Cusack, R.
Process Control / Process Optimization

A fresh look investigates general principles in designing process coalescers

Unifying framework for six sigma and process control

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2009
Six Sigma and Advanced Controls, Inc.: Deshpande, P. B.  |  Tantalean, R. Z.
Process Control / Process Optimization

The advances presented will improve quality and productivity

IT/automation convergence revisited

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2009
Tesoro Corp.: Kern, A.G.
Process Control / Process Optimization

Keeping automation close-coupled to operation is key

HP Control: APC designs for minimum maintenance—Part 1

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2009
Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.
Process Control

I, and others, have written much about the difficulties of maintaining advanced process control (APC) applications.1–5 It is a problem to be tackled on many levels. There are issues of manning, t..

Re-evaluate your expansion projects for the new global market

Hydrocarbon Processing / June 2009
KBC Advanced Technologies, Inc.: Fairleigh, B.  |  Jacobs, J.  |  Ohmes, R.
Process Control / Process Optimization

Tighter economic conditions require refiners to reconsider benchmark and optimization tools for revamps