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Optimizing Combustion Performance

Posted in Boilers, Energy Management, Industrial Energy, Process Optimization on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011. No comments yet
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I saw a tweet from Control magazine editor-in-chief Walt Boyes, which alerted me to a presentation that I needed to get my hands on. Emerson’s Bob Sabin, a member of the industrial energy team, was kind enough to provide me a copy. You may recall Bob from several energy efficiency-related posts. A fellow member of [...]

Pre-Engineered Advanced Process Control

Posted in Boilers, Distillation Column on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011. No comments yet
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Process manufacturers across many world areas continually look for ways to improve energy usage, operational efficiency, and quality with the limited resources they have to execute these improvement projects. In a recent Hydrocarbon Processing magazine article, Pre-engineered solutions drive down advanced control costs, Emerson’s Pete Sharpe and Gary Hawkins describe how these improvement projects can [...]

Modernizing Burner Management Systems

Posted in Boilers, Pulp & Paper, Safety on Thursday, March 17th, 2011. No comments yet
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The Industrial Safety and Security Source blog has a post, Firing Up Burner System, which describes the implementation of a burner management system (BMS) at RockTenn‘s recycled paper mill in St. Paul, Minnesota. Their challenge was to replace an old relay panel-based BMS on the plant boilers. The National Fire Protection Agency (NPFA) 85: Boiler [...]

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Optimizing Sequence-Based Control Strategies

Posted in Boilers, Control Strategies on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010. No comments yet
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Update and bump: The whitepaper, DCS Controller Loading Reduction for Sequence Logic – A Boiler Control Project Case Study, is now available. Original post: Let’s close this week with a post about sequence control loading improvements in boiler operations. I managed to get my hands on a draft of a whitepaper from Emerson’s Shawn Zadeh [...]

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Biomass Fuel in Alternative Energy Production

Posted in Alternative Energy, Boilers on Monday, April 19th, 2010. No comments yet
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I caught up last week with Emerson’s Al Novak. You may recall Al from some of our alternative fuels-related posts. He mentioned that they had another Alternative Fuels and Energy Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The focus of this summit was on using “biomass” feed stocks and using biochemical, thermochemical, or combustion technologies to convert the [...]

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Efficiently Operating and Optimizing Boiler Performance

Posted in Boilers, Energy Management on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009. No comments yet
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Boilers remain a large source of energy consumption in most plants. Emerson’s Bob Sabin, whom you may recall from many earlier energy management-related posts, has some great thoughts on a recent Plant Services magazine article. The article Boiler inspection and maintenance by Stephen Kleva provides an overview and reminder of aspects of safe and economical [...]

Calculating Boiler Blowdown Savings

Posted in Analyzers, Boilers, Measurement on Friday, March 27th, 2009. One comment so far
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I always like receiving goodies that I can pass along to the readers of this blog. This one, a boiler blowdown savings calculator, is from Emerson’s Jim Thompson. Jim is a manager in the Rosemount Analytical Liquid business. Jim probably knew that I’m definitely not a boiler blowdown expert, so he was kind enough to [...]

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Controlling 3-Way Flow in Temperature Applications

Posted in Boilers, Feed Water Control, Final Control Element, Food & Beverage, Metals, Mining, Minerals, Oil & Gas, pH Control on Thursday, November 6th, 2008. No comments yet

Emerson’s Fisher division recently announced a new three-way, temperature-control valve and actuator system. The release highlighted its potential use by process manufacturers: The new GX 3-way has the ability to accurately control the temperature of water, oils, steam, and other industrial fluids. Applications include heat exchangers and lubricating skids. For those not well versed with [...]

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More Ideas for Saving Energy in your Plant

Posted in Boilers, Distillation Column, Energy Management, Final Control Element, Measurement, Process Optimization on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008. No comments yet

My colleague, Deb Franke, pointed me to a great article in her RSS feeds. The ChemicalProcessing.com article, Innovative Fixes for Saving Energy in Plants, describes some ideas to help reduce plant energy costs. Although energy costs have come down in recent weeks, they are still one of the largest controllable costs as I have mentioned [...]

Saving Energy with Advanced Automation

Posted in Boilers, Distillation Column, Energy Management, Fired Heater, Lime Kiln, Process Optimization on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008. No comments yet

Emerson’s Doug White sent me his presentations from the recent AIChE spring meeting. Doug is a principal consultant and vice president for advanced process control (APC) services, and has many years of experience justifying, designing, installing and commissioning APC applications for process manufacturers. Given rapid rising energy costs, his presentation, How to Save Energy through [...]

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