2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety

Session: Process Control and Optimization Developments

This session covers theory and techniques for process control and optimization, applicable to any processing area. Potential topics include Advanced Regulatory Control, Model Predictive Control, Real Time Optimization, Nonlinear Control, Inferential Modeling/State Estimation, and Planning and Scheduling.

Chair

Mark Darby, CMiD Solutions

Co-Chairs

M. Nazmul Karim, Texas A&M University
Tony Liu, MMI Engineering

Presentations

01:00 AM

Data-Based Fault Detection for Safe and Reliable Process Start-up and Recovery after Natural Disasters
Jonathan P. Raftery, Chiranjivi Botre, Nazmul Karim

01:30 PM

(202a) Tuning PID Controllers for Complex Integrating Process Dynamics
James Beall

02:00 PM

(202b) Tune Your PID Loops Please!
Sam Dhaliwal

02:30 PM

(202c) pH and Other Non-Linear Control Applications
Thomas Nolan

03:00 PM

(202d) Living on the Edge with Distributed Embedded Model Predictive Control
Patrick Thorpe, Shabroz Gill

03:30 PM

(202e) Automation of Knowledge Work in Advanced Process Control
Alex Kalafatis, Hong Zhao, Lucas Reis