Treffer: Are you getting the full benefits from your advanced process control systems?

The article presents information on advanced process control systems. Most majors in the refining and chemical/petrochemical industries have extensively, successfully, and now routinely applied APC technology to their largest processing units. The most widely used incarnation of APC is model predictive control with its capabilities to deal with interactive process variables, model complex dynamic response, maintain the process at operating limits, and reliably respond to process disturbances and upsets. APC systems have been applied at some of the world's largest facilities and extensively in the U.S. Internationally and at smaller facilities, a significant opportunity for APC benefits still exists.