Power & Utilities

  • July 6, 2020
  • Control Guru

Watering Down Production for Increased Profits

Tightening control around Set Point will improve the performance and profitability of most every production process. This is especially true of drying processes applied by ethanol manufacturers to control moisture

  • June 19, 2019
  • Control Guru

Powering Up with Automatic Control

Electricity is an everyday necessity and while power generation is a $400 Billion industry in the US alone the availability of electricity is regularly taken for granted by consumers. Interestingly,

  • August 15, 2017
  • Control Guru

Optimizing Control for More Profitable Operation

Professionals in the process control world understand that “less” can often mean more. That is especially true when referring to reduced cycling within a given production process. Reducing oscillations and

  • August 15, 2017
  • Control Guru

Modeling the Dynamics of Highly Oscillatory Processes

Optimizing heat rate is a critical success factor for most coal-fired power plants. Too little heat and the plant wastes the energy produced from bituminous coal and other costly production

  • August 15, 2017
  • Control Guru

Is Poor Control Wearing You Out?

In the power industry, the cost of replacing a single pump can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars in terms of new equipment cost, manpower, and system downtime. Changes

  • August 15, 2017
  • Control Guru

A Stable Desuperheater Is Super Profitable!

Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a regional power generation and transmission company that services nine of the US’s plain states. As a consumer-owned cooperative, Basin Electric provides critical utility services