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(Follow-up to "PID Explained for Process Engineers: Part 1 — The Basic Control Equation," CEP, Jan. 2016)

Control loops must be tuned to get the characteristics of the controller "in tune" with the characteristics of the process. The proportional, integral,...

(Follow-up to "Modeling Aqueous Electrolyte Systems," CEP, March 2015, pp. 65-75)

First-principles-based process simulation of electrolyte systems is a key enabling technology for chemical engineers to design, debottleneck, and optimize chemical processes with electrolytes. In...

Process safety performance indicators (PSPIs) help to predict when a process safety accident is most likely to occur. This article describes the two different approaches for developing a PSPI program — the barrier-based approach and the tier-based approach — and offers examples...

The differential equation for PID control contains three possible modes:
• proportional
• integral
• derivative.

This three-part series of articles explains the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control equation in language that process...