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Boosting temperature inferential control performance in distillation columns

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2010
Beijing University of Chemical Technology: Huang, K.  |  Luo, X.
Process Control / Distillation / Information Systems

An effective compensation method improves performance

HP Control: Continuous improvement or core-competency?

Hydrocarbon Processing / July 2010
Tesoro Corp.: Kern, A.G.
Process Control / Economics / Engineering & Design / Europe / Information Systems / Middle East

In the past decade or two, the concepts of key performance indicators (KPIs), continuous improvement, core-competency and best practices have received a lot of attention. What are the relationships be..

Improving data reconciliation and yield accounting

Hydrocarbon Processing / March 2010
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.: Patil, P.  |  Roy, G.
Process Control / Project Management / Economics / Information Systems

Here's how the Mathura Refinery's data reconciliation and yield accounting project was implemented

Practical process control system metrics

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2009
Tesoro Corp.: Kern, A.G.
Process Control / Information Systems

Here are several useful examples

Agile supply chain planning

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2009
M3 Technology: Acuff, C.  |  Jasper, D.
Chevron Corp.: Thomas, C.  |  Tong, D.
Process Control / Information Systems

Providing a common workspace improves data integration

Service-oriented architecture simplifies data source integration

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2009
Infosys Consulting: Samdani, K.
Process Control / Information Systems

Here's how the approach helps refinery scheduling and also contributes to business-wide SOA adoption

Predicting octane numbers for gasoline blends using artificial neural networks

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2009
Iran University of Science and Technology: Pranghooshi, E.  |  Sadeghi, M. T.
Sahand Univerity of Technology: Shafiei, S.
Process Control / Information Systems

The ANN models were more accurate than regression models

Implementing and maintaining advanced process control on continuous catalytic reforming

Hydrocarbon Processing / October 2009
Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC): Al-Majed, A.  |  Kaushal, S.
Aspen Tech Middle East (ATME): Banerjee, P.
Process Control / Information Systems

The primary benefit was an increase in reformate octane barrel yield from operating the plant at its economic constraints

Computational fluid dynamics simulation of solid–liquid slurry flow

Hydrocarbon Processing / April 2009
National Institute of Technology: Ghanta, K. C.  |  Lahiri, S. K.
Process Control / Information Systems

The resulting model's predictions showed reasonably good agreement with the experimental data

Genetic algorithm tuning improves artificial neural network models

Hydrocarbon Processing / January 2009
National Institute of Technology: Ghanta, K. C.  |  Lahiri, S. K.
Process Control / Information Systems

The technique is illustrated by predicting hold-up of slurry flow in pipelines