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Michael Brown Control Engineering CC
Practical Process Control Training & Loop Optimisation
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Over 100 PDF Case Histories
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Examples of some of the Case Histories in the PDF are given below:
A series of articles based on actual problems occurring in process plants
15 The importance of understanding your controller
17 How well are the feedback control loops in your plant working?
36 Successful optimisation: - the need for commitment by all
46 Analysis uncovers control problems in a process plant
55 Control: perceptions versus reality
58 Problems in an interactive combustion oil control system
59 Regulatory controls in most plants do not work properly
60 Do mines have particularly bad control problems?
65 The only magic: understanding what you are doing
71 The amazing problem free plant
75 Mould level control in continuous casting machines
76 Money being wasted: improve the performance of your base layer controls
79 Are smart positioners the answer to all valve problems?
80 Poor control performance is a world wide phenomenon
81 Good control requires obedient valves
85 pH problems at an Australian mine
92 The controller has gone out of tune!
97 Monsters in a chemical plant
Latest Case Histories
(Latest article is CASE HISTORY 198 Posted on 31 May 2025
178 AN OVER FILTERED HYDROGEN FLOW LOOP
179 SOME UNUSUAL MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL PROBLEMS
180 FUEL GAS PRESSURE CONTROL PROBLEM
181 UNDERSTAND THE BASICS OF THE COMPONENTS IN THE LOOP
182 A TEMPERATURE CASCADE CONTROL LOOP THAT DIDN’T WORK
183 BAD VALVE SPLIT RANGING CAUSING PROBLEMS
184 WHY COULDN’T THEY TUNE THE LOOPS TO GET GOOD CONTROL?
185 TEMPERATURE CASCADE CONTROL ON BOILER DESUPERHEATERS
186 DON’T ALWAYS TRUST VALVE POSITION FEEDBACK SIGNALS
187 INTEGRATING OR SELF-REGULATING OR BOTH?
188 PROCESS GAIN – AN IMPORTANT DYNAMIC
189 POOR FURNACE TEMPERATURE CONTROL
190 MEASUREMENT PROBLEM RUINS LEVEL CONTROL
194. BOILER LEVEL CONTROL PROBLEM
195. UNSTABLE REBOILER HP STEAM FLOW
196. UNSTABLE CONDENSATE LEVEL CONTROL
197. BAD REBOILER TEMPERATURE CONTROL
