Gain knowledge and strategies for optimizing plant safety and efficiency. These training courses include topics such as alarm management, SCADA systems, P&ID loop, batch control, HMI, fire and gas ...

Learn chemical process simulation, economics, automation, and control. Design and retrofit chemical processes to achieve improved performance and a better bottom line. Build skills in advanced process ...

The refining and petrochemical industry is reliant on improving return on assets and lowering operating costs to be competitive. In these challenging times, doing more with less is essential to ...

Author Dr. R. Russell Rhinehart discusses his new book, Nonlinear Model-Based Control: Using First-Principles Models in Process Control, and explains why nonlinear first-principles models should be ...

Although digital control systems—distributed control systems, programmable logic controller, and other automation equipment—are present in practically every process safety management (PSM) facility ...

In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...

Each element in the regulatory control loop from the primary sensor to the final control element must perform well in order for the advanced controller to also perform well. This is of course why one ...

Staff Sgt. Isaiah Green Cardwell, an information systems security manager for the 35th Civil Engineer Squadron at Misawa Air Base, Japan, attends the inaugural offering of the Air Force Institute of ...

The process control and instrumentation minor emphasizes developing skills and knowledge in theory, software and in the field. Students graduate ready to solve complex control problems in the chemical ...