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DeltaV Blog:
Plant Alarm Management and Analysis
Jim Cahill
It’s almost like a Friday here in the US as we head into the 4th of July Independence Day weekend. Let’s end the short week with a YouTube video on alarm management by Emerson’s Kim VanCamp. In the 8:25 YouTube video, DeltaV Analyze, Kim opens by describing...
3 Jul 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Adaptive Tuning – Model Switching
Terry Blevins
During the development of the DeltaV adaptive tuning capability, we researched and evaluated many of the most common techniques for implementing adaptive tuning. Also, as part of this research we came across a number of technical articles on a relative new adaptive tuning technique known as model switching. This technique depends on the evaluation of … Continue reading » Read the full text.
1 Jul 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Getting the Power and Grounding Right
Jim Cahill
The finest instrumentation, final control, and control systems won’t deliver the performance you require if the power and grounding are not right. I caught up with Emerson’s Stephan Kerrebijn who highlighted its importance as the basis for a reliable...
27 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Press Release: Emerson to automate CNOOC South China Sea natural gas development platform
Larry Griffin
Deepwater natural gas development project will use Emerson’s DeltaV™ technology AUSTIN, TEXAS (June 25, 2013) – CNOOC Limited has selected Emerson Process Management to provide process automation, safety, and asset management technology for a gas production project in the South China Sea. The deepwater project includes the Liwan 3-1 field, jointly developed by CNOOC and [...] Read the full text.
26 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Process Simulation to Test Compressor Anti-Surge Control Strategy
Jim Cahill
Some of our most consistently popular posts here at Emerson Process Experts center on anti-surge control for centrifugal compressors. I had the opportunity to catch up with Emerson’s Ashish Patki when he was in town last month. Ashish shared a story where...
25 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Adaptive Tuning
Terry Blevins
A perfectly-tuned PID controller can degrade over time and perform poorly or become oscillatory. There are two main reasons for these changes: The controlled process is non-linear, and the process operation has entered a region with significantly different process parameters than those used during the tuning. The process operating conditions have changed since the auto-tuning … Continue reading » Read the full text.
24 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
The Benefits of FDI Technology
Terry Blevins
The ISA104 Device Integration committee was established to develop or adopt, and to facilitate the application of standards and technical reports that represent device and interface descriptions for access of field devices in automation systems. In 2012 the scope of the committee was expanded to include the promotion of the Field Device Integration (FDI) standard, … Continue reading » Read the full text.
17 Jun 2013
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Best Order for Control, Safety and Fire & Gas Hot Cutover
Jim Cahill
Several weeks ago, we had a meeting with many of our global consultants, whom we often feature here on the blog. I had the opportunity to meet some new faces and will be sharing their stories in future posts. Emerson’s Julian Gonzalez is one of the Solutions...
12 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Application of Kalman Filtering in DeltaV
Terry Blevins
A paper published in 1960 by Rudolf Kálmán “A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems” is the basis for the Kalman Filter. The Kalman filter has been successfully used in a wide variety of applications: • The guidance of commercial airplanes • Seismic data processing • Nuclear power plant instrumentation • Vehicle navigation … Continue reading » Read the full text.
10 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Updated DeltaV Virtualization Whitepaper
Larry Griffin
This whitepaper provides an overview of Emerson’s DeltaV Virtualization solutions for both on-line production systems and off-line systems for development, testing, and training. (2MB PDF) Read the full text.
10 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Updated DeltaV Virtual Studio Product Data Sheet
Larry Griffin
DeltaV Virtual Studio makes it easy to create and maintain virtual DeltaV systems for development, testing, training and on-line production. (1.16MB PDF) Read the full text.
10 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Accelerating the Process Automation Learning Curve
Jim Cahill
We continue to hear stories of an increasing experience shortage in the process industries due to the retiring “baby boom” generation. This shortage manifests itself in numerous job openings for process manufacturers and automation suppliers including...
4 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
2013 Emerson Global Users Exchange Americas Registration is open
Larry Griffin
Evolving economics, regulations, technology, and expertise impact us all. That’s why you need to attend the 2013 Emerson Exchange – this is your opportunity for “Combining the Elements” of success to impact your company’s bottom line. The value you gain from Exchange is limited only by the amount of knowledge you can absorb while attending. [...] Read the full text.
4 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Robustness-Based Tuning
Terry Blevins
Before tuning calculations are applied in a control loop, it is good to consider how much the process gain and deadtime can change before the loop becomes unstable. In the DeltaV control system, this information is provided using a robustness plot that shows gain margin and phase margin as illustrated below. Information on this type … Continue reading » Read the full text.
3 Jun 2013
DeltaV Blog:
New DeltaV Workstation Operating System Licensing Whitepaper
Larry Griffin
This document details the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems licensing models used in the DeltaV system and the DeltaV workstations associated with each operating system licensing model and the use of Backup and Recovery Universal Restore option (94KB PDF). Read the full text.
31 May 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Commissioning PI Control – Integrating Process
Terry Blevins
When the control objective is to maintain the controlled parameter of an integrating process at setpoint under all operating conditions, then using PI (proportional-integral or proportional plus reset) controller, it is possible to automatically compensate for changes in disturbance inputs and maintain the controlled parameter at setpoint. However, the application of PI control to an … Continue reading » Read the full…
27 May 2013
Operations Management Blog:
CPhI Pharma Evolution Guest Post-Electronic Batch Records: Are Your Systems Ready for Inspection?
Jim Cahill
I wanted to share my guest post published at the CPhI Pharma Evolution website. There are some great comments, so join in if the post sparks some ideas. Stringent inspection-readiness policies are common with pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers....
23 May 2013
Operations Management Blog:
CPhI Pharma Evolution Guest Post-Electronic Batch Records: Are Your Systems Ready for Inspection?
Jim Cahill
I wanted to share my guest post published at the CPhI Pharma Evolution website . There are some great comments , so join in if the post sparks some ideas. Stringent inspection-readiness policies are common with pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. From a computerized system standpoint, the rules of Part 11 (Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures – Scope and Application) and Good Automated Manufacturing Practice…
23 May 2013
Operations Management Blog:
CPhI Pharma Evolution Guest Post-Electronic Batch Records: Are Your Systems Ready for Inspection?
Jim Cahill
I wanted to share my guest post published at the CPhI Pharma Evolution website . There are some great comments , so join in if the post sparks some ideas. Stringent inspection-readiness policies are common with pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. From a computerized system standpoint, the rules of Part 11 (Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures – Scope and Application) and Good Automated Manufacturing Practice…
23 May 2013
SCADA Blog:
Remote Automation Solutions At Ningbo Stop Of PwoC China
ZhenningChen
Emerson Process has started another round of 2013 PwoC in China and Ningbo is the first stop for its East region. Remote Automation Solutions (RAS), as one of its Business Units, successfully joined the activity in Westin Hotel, Ningbo city of Zhejiang province on 15 May 2013. For this event, RAS brought its RTU and Flow Computer demo with the new feature of WirelessHART interface, and introduced its tank farm SCADA…
21 May 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Surge Tank Control
Terry Blevins
Intermediate liquid storage tanks (surge tanks) are commonly installed between processing areas of the plant. Under normal operating conditions, these storage buffers allow each process area to be operated independently of the other process areas. Any imbalance in the area production rates within a plant will be reflected by a change in level of the … Continue reading » Read the full text.
20 May 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Updated DeltaV SIS Logic Solver Product Data Sheet
Larry Griffin
Smart Logic Solvers (SLS) contain the logic-solving capability and provide an interface to 16 I/O channels that can be configured as Discrete Input, Discrete Output, Analog Input (HART) and HART two-state output channels. (900KB PDF) Read the full text.
17 May 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Easy to Apply Tuning Rules
Terry Blevins
Older control systems may not include tools that allow the PID tuning to be automatically established. In such cases, the following procedure outlined in Chapter 12 of Control Loop Foundation – Batch and Continuous Processes may be quickly applied to determine the tuning of a self-regulating process for PI control. In Chapter 4 of Advanced … Continue reading » Read the full text.
13 May 2013
DeltaV Blog:
On-demand Tuning Example
Terry Blevins
Control system manufacturers have adopted different technologies to implement on-demand tuning. Because these tools are designed to work in a noisy process measurement environment, the tuning results are usually better than those achieved through manual tuning techniques. To illustrate the features that may be included in on-demand tuning capability, the on-demand tuning capability of the … Continue reading » Read the…
6 May 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Updated DeltaV Simulate Product Data Sheet
Larry Griffin
DeltaV Simulate is a comprehensive off-line environment for engineering development, application testing, and operator training for both DeltaV and DeltaV SIS. (1MB PDF) Read the full text.
2 May 2013
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