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2019 Control Process Automation Hall of Fame: Nicholas Sands

New inductees shape the future of our profession.

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Our two 2019 inductees to the Control Process Automation Hall of Fame are both chemical engineers (ChEs) who have devoted almost their entire careers to a single enterprise, but they occupy the alternate realities of industry and academia. Despite disparate priorities, both have demonstrated uncommon devotion to building process control wisdom and conveying it to others.Both were also enthusiastically nominated and selected by the existing members of our Process Automation Hall of Fame. And, as you’ll see, each presents an admirable example of how one person can influence and inspire others to strive and excel in the field.Bears standards, promulgates best practicesOur…

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CG1903 LevelSOT Tablet compressorLevel Measurement, Spring 2019

The latest trends, technology and implementations on the topic of level measurement are detailed in this new eBook from the editors of Control. Learn when reducing variability can be wrong, how to understand P, I and D, and why global warming is like level control. Download it here.

 

1904 DE small compressorOur latest issue: April 2019

Control's two 2019 inductees to the Control Process Automation Hall of Fame are both chemical engineers (ChEs) who have have demonstrated uncommon devotion to building process control wisdom and conveying it to others. Read the issue.

 

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Differential pressure level in a purged tank

Hydrostatic and head pressures can lead to confusion

Q: When using a differential-pressure (DP) level transmitter, are the high and the low pressure ports reversed if the tank is purged with nitrogen? Purging is needed because the tank contains a hydrate inhibitor.R. Revishr.revish@gmail.comA: In all wet leg-type level installations, the top…

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