Advanced Process Control

In many processing plants, the network architecture is identified as follows:

Topics: Advanced Process Control, Industry 4.0, Operational Excellence

Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Real-time Optimisation (RTO) are technologies that drive processes to their most profitable operating region, without the need to invest in additional plant equipment. These technologies provide different features and functionalities and could quite often work in...

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Advanced process control (APC) solutions such as MPC (model predictive control) have the ability to unlock vast amounts of hidden value by improving process stability and continuously optimising processing plants. MPC solutions make use of models derived from the actual process to predict future...

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From refineries to petrochemical and chemical industries, the Smith predictor is used to improve the control of processes with a long dead time. The delayed behavior of the process is compensated by using an approximated model in the control structure. It is common for process control engineers to...

Topics: Advanced Process Control

In the broad process industry, units operating automatically, e.g., through the application of advanced process control (APC) or real-time optimization (RTO) digital technology, can become up to 10% more efficient. By automatically calculating product quality and adjusting key process parameters,...

Topics: Advanced Process Control, Industry 4.0

Building corporate dashboards and site-level applications that provide engaging insights Аn IPCOS client, a company with more than 50 plants mostly in specialty chemicals, was struggling with the vast variability of how PID loops were operated and tuned between plants. The customer did not have...

Topics: Advanced Process Control, Digitalization

Do you manage, supervise, and operate a chlorate production process? Are you looking for saving opportunities or optimization possibilities? Find inspiration in this blog on how you can benefit from debottlenecking and advanced process control (APC) optimization.

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In November 2021, COP26 held in Glasgow, UK, set reducing emissions as one of its focus points. At the same time, the European Green Deal is setting clear targets for the European countries – net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Topics: Plant performance, Advanced Process Control

Quality targets of product streams are extremely important to maintain and ensure on-spec delivery to final customers. Softsensors can be created, so a continuous measurement is available for important quality variables, especially when there are no on-line analyzers and the lab samples of the...

Topics: Advanced Process Control