Terrence Blevins - Advanced Control Foundation: Tools, Techniques and Applications

The authors wish to express their appreciation to Grant Wilson and Peter Zornio for supporting advanced control research and work on this book, and to Jim Nyquist, John Berra, Mike Sheldon, Duncan Schleiss, John Caldwell, Dawn Marruchella, Darrin Kuchle, Jay Colclazer, Nathan Pettus, Bruce Greenwald, Jim Hoffmaster, Ron Eddie and Gil Pareja from Emerson Process Management for their inspiration and support of advanced control initiatives. Also, we would like to express our deepest thanks to Bud Keyes, former Senior Vice President of Technology, Emerson Process Management for his initiative in establishing the DeltaV advanced control program. In our work, we have benefited from communications with Karl strm from Lund University, Tom Edgar from the University of Texas, Joe Qin from the University of Southern California, and Dale Seborg from the University of California, Santa Barbara on both basic and advanced control topics. The authors wish to thank Joanne Salazar, Glenn McLaughin, and Deborah Franke for their help with the web site for this book and Brenda Forsythe and Jim Sipowicz for the creative book cover design. We want to thank Joan Forbes and Cary Laird for their thorough review of the first draft and many editing suggestions. We also want to thank technical editor Scott Bogue for his excellent review of the final draft. In addition, we appreciate the input provided by ISA, and thank Susan Colwell, Manager, Publications Development, ISA, for her support in the publication of this book.

Over the years we have benefited from working with many others in the design and implementation of advanced control tools. The authors are deeply indebted to the developers of the advanced control tools that were the basis for writing this book. This includes Vasiliki Tzovla, Ron Ottenbacher, Dirk Thiele, Ashish Mehta, Yan Zhang, Peter Wojsz nis, Ian Nadas, Paul Muston, Bob Havekost, Paul Daly, Adam Qui, Chris Worek, Ken Beoughter, Dan Christensen, Ling Zhou, Ian Lloyd, and Vivi Hidayat. Also, we would like to recognize the valuable contribution of Tom Aneweer, Dennis Stevenson, Dick Seemann, Yang Zhang, Steve Morrison, Mike Ott, Chuck Johnston, Randy Reiss, Greg McMillan, Todd Maras, Michael Boudreau, David Rehbein, Pat Dixon, Quay Finefrock, Shelli Callender, and Sai Ganesamoorthi. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the many customers we have worked with in field testing advanced control products. In particular, the following individuals supported evaluation of these tools in their plants: John Traylor, Texas Eastman; Mark Sowell, Solutia; Romeo Ancheta, Husky Energy; Derrick Vanderkraats, Canfor; Bruce Johnson and Efren Hernandez, Lubrizol; Bruce Eldridge, Frank Seibert, Ricardo Dunia, Eric Chen, Robert Montgomery, and Stephen W. Briggs, University of Texas, Austin, Pickle Research Center; Scott Broadley, President, Broadley-James; and Dan Coyne and Paul Oram, BP. Our special thanks goes to the Lubrizol team led by Bob Wojewodka for their feedback on the development of data analytics.

The authors greatly appreciate the effort of Emerson Process Management Systems and Solutions control engineers progressing advanced control applications in petrochemical, oil and gas, chemical, life science, pulp and paper, power, and other industries. Our thanks go to James Beall, Lou Heavner, Pete Sharpe, Doug White, Jim Dunbar, Elizabeth Alagar, and many others.

It has been gratifying to work with Terry Chmelyk, Don Umbach, John Peterson, and Mike Begin and the rest of Spartan Controls team in field testing new advanced control technologies. The lime kiln example in this book is an example of their work in this area. Also, we greatly appreciate the work done by the Spartan Control and Emerson Process Management teams in applying real-time optimization and MPC in a wide variety of applications. The application examples derived from the valuable field experience of Chris Hawkins, George Buchanan, Andrew Riley from Emerson Process Management, UK, Terrance Chmelyk, Saul Mtakula, Manny Sidhu, and Carl Sheehan from Spartan Controls, Barry Hirtz from Canfor, and by Stewart McLeod from Catalyst Paper greatly enriched this book

We are indebted and thankful as well to many of those not listed here who impacted the development of Emerson Process Managements advanced control products or contributed to the successful application of these products and inspired us to write this book.