Technical material
Many of us have experience with processing facilities of some kind. By this, I mean petrochemical plants, refineries, food processing facilities and distilleries (to name a few). How many of us are privy to the day-to-day frustrations from the Operating teams? The seals on P-123 have failed again. I thought Engineering already put in tougher…
Happy New Year! I created a video series that describes how process hydraulic behaviour can cause perfectly good PID controllers to become unreliable. Facilities can increase capacity by addressing these issues, often with no additional capital. Part 1: Control Problems The symptoms of a control problem are described. Part 2: Tuning Strategies Two different tuning…
Thanks for the opportunity to present OTSG water side dynamics to the class. The presentation slides can be downloaded here. Check out the OTSG tab on my web page: the link to the YouTube training videos are at the bottom of the page. The explanation for changing the BFW temperature by starting/stopping the pump is…