Michael Brown is holding another series of his well-known courses on practical process control. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of ...
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The dancing valve.
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One of the most interesting dynamics that can be found in the industrial control world is what is known as a first order lead on an integrating process. A positive lead integrator responds to a step change ...
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Extra course in November Due to high demand and existing courses being fully booked, Michael Brown will be running an additional course in November. This will be the combined parts 1 and 2 and will run ...
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Following from the last Case History article, number 132, about interesting loops in a chemical plant where I do a lot of optimisation, here are a few more examples of interesting loops.    The basics of ...
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Extra course in November Due to high demand and existing courses being fully booked, Michael Brown will be running an additional course in November. This will be the combined parts 1 and 2 and will run ...
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One of the things I enjoy most in my working life is optimising base layer control loops in plants in the chemical, petro-chemical and paper industries. There are several reasons for this, but chiefly ...
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Michael Brown is holding another series of his well known courses on practical process control. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the field of ...
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I have performed loop optimisation in hundreds of plants in various countries and there are many myths and misconceptions that are common to them all. The worst is that all loop problems can be solved ...
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Limit your controller’s output.
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Michael Brown Control Engineering has moved. The new details are:    Phone: +27 (0)82 440 7790    Fax: +27 (0)86 671 9320    E-mail and url remain the same as:    E-mail: [email protected]    Website: http://www.controlloop.co.za/...
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Incorrect level control strategies cause instability.
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