ISA

Advanced process control: Indispensable process optimization tool

In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...
Nature

Network control by a constrained external agent as a continuous optimization problem

Networks are ubiquitous in modern society. The interconnectedness of networks has the potential to magnify the impact of a local event or intervention on the system as a whole. Such impact has been ...
Nature

Optimization of dewatering process of concentrate pressure filtering by support vector regression

This work studies the mechanism and optimization methods of the filter press dehydration process to better improve the efficiency of the concentrate filter press dehydration operation. Machine ...
ISA

Single-loop control- Still the mainstay of advanced process control

Just over a decade ago, an article titled, "Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field" (Control, October 2008), highlighted three evolving trends in the process control world that would "make ...