A 25 MW combined-cycle cogeneration plant at the University of Connecticut supplies electricity to the entire UConn campus with three natural gas combustion turbine generators and one high pressure steam
Control problems range from malfunctioning valves to clogged heat exchangers along with most everything in between.
Asset maintenance and reliability are topics regularly covered in trade publications, around the water cooler, and in budget planning sessions.
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No surprise, as the demographics of industrial automation continue to shift a graying workforce is giving way to a younger, greener one. More and more staff are retiring just as
On-Off Control is not a highly sophisticated control method. Even so, examples of its practical, everyday use can be found all around. Look no further than the appliances in your
In a previous post cascade control was introduced as an effective means of limiting the lag between an upset and the associated PID control loop's correction. As practitioners know: The
Place in Industrial Process Control. As with most everything in process manufacturing, PID controllers require practitioners to make choices. One of those choices is which form of the controller to apply
Temperature is one of the more common types of self-regulating - also known as non-integrating - processes used in industry. Like other self-regulating loops, temperature loops tend to naturally settle
Practitioners often apply simple guidelines when it comes to data collection requirements and controller tuning. These "rules of thumb" assure that sufficient data resolution exists when a given PID control
