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How to Combat Process
Disturbances and Interactions
Organized by the PAPTAC Process Control Community / Organisé par la Communauté PAPTAC du contrôle de procédés

About the PCC/ À propos de la CCP - Join this Community / Joindre cette Communauté
  When / quand: Nov. 20, 2012
13:00 – 13:30 ET

 
Registration / inscription: Free for PAPTAC members / Gratuit pour les membres
50 $ for non-members / pour les non-membres
  Speaker / Conférenciers: Hank Brittain –Top Control Inc., now part of BBA.  

E-mail Carmie Lato at ([email protected]) to confirm your presence or call 514-392-6969.

PID loop interactions and process disturbances are a leading source of process variability and instability in all processes. The advanced techniques to deal with these (decoupling and feedforward control) have existed for decades, yet are seldom used or used incorrectly. This is because these techniques rely on 'textbook' methods to obtain the needed process models.
This presentation will show you how to employ new tools to easily obtain the effects of interaction and disturbances on your process (the models) and how to use these to break or eliminate loop interactions and the effects of disturbances. The tools can be used to perform tests while the process is running normally. A highly interactive process with a common disturbance will be used to illustrate the solution with before and after results shown.

Who should attend?

• Managers and Process Engineers who are curious about what can be done about oscillations caused by pesky interactions and disturbances that push the process away from targets.
• Process Control Engineers and Technicians who have heard about methods to deal with these problems but are unsure of where to start or how to implement a solution.

Why should you attend?

You will learn how to:
- Measure the interaction between PID loops.
- A quick fix for this.
- Cancel the interactions.
- Measure the effect of a disturbance on a PID loop.
- The limitation of PID control in handling this.
- Cancel the effects of the disturbance.

 

Hank Brittain, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant,
Optimization and
Advanced Control
Top Control Inc., now part of BBA.
  

Hank Brittain holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Florida, Tampa. He has over 25 years experience as a process controls engineer, including 15 years in process improvement and control system optimization in Chemicals, Consumer Products, Crude Oil Processing on and off-shore, Dryers, Furnaces, Foods, Mining and Ore Processing, Power Generation, Pulp & Paper, Refining, and Pharmaceuticals, and NASA Rocket Gantry Temperature Control.

Dr. Brittain previously lived and worked in Japan and Thailand for several years as an International Engineering Manager for Procter & Gamble, has consulted in over 20 countries, and has taught process control to managers, engineers and technicians in Japan, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Belgium, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Vietnam, Singapore, Trinidad, the U.S., and Canada. He is currently a Principle Consultant with Top Control Inc., now part of BBA.

  
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