Overview

While we generally want controllers to deal with disturbances quickly, this is often not the case with level control. Instead we might want to utilise the available surge capacity to reduce the impact of flow changes. This webinar will describe the differences in controller design. It will also show how the range of special-purpose algorithms, available in most control systems, offer further improvement.

Speaker

Myke King, Director, Whitehouse Consulting

Myke graduated from Cambridge University in the UK with a in chemical engineering. His course included process control taught as part of both mechanical engineering and chemical engineering. At the time he understood neither. On graduating he joined, by chance, the process control section at Exxon’s refinery at Fawley in the UK. Fortunately he quickly discovered that the practical application of process control bore little resemblance to the theory he had covered at university.

Myke left Exxon to co-found KBC Process Automation, a subsidiary of KBC Process Technology, later becoming its managing director. In 1992, the company was sold to Honeywell where it became their European centre of excellence for process control. It was at this time Myke set up Whitehouse Consulting. He has since provided consulting services and training to several hundred clients in over 40 countries.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Process Management and Control Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

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