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    Deep dive into distillation control

    Greg McMillan
    Examining the tug-of-war between reboiler and reflux actions
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    Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence, part 3

    Greg McMillan
    The process industry can make changes for better safety performance
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    Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence—part 2

    Greg McMillan
    There are changes the process industry can make for better safety performance
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    Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence, part 1

    Greg McMillan
    Why the process industries need practical improvements in business policies, and how to do it
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    Achieving plantwide, multivariable control

    Greg McMillan
    These practical techniques help eliminate compartmentalization of multivariable control
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    One wish for 2024—more APC

    Greg McMillan
    We conclude this modeling and control series by asking engineers to use simulations to achieve more prolific and productive APC
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    Control Talk: Failure identification and management

    Greg McMillan
    FMEA is a qualitative tool developed to provide a structured technique for failure analysis
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    Control Talk: Top of the plant bottom line

    Greg McMillan
    Inferential measurements of stream composition can improve the performance of individual unit operations
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    AI & ML

    Control Talk: Machine learning, deep learning and nonlinear controls

    Greg McMillan
    Why you should be intrigued, and why you should be cautious
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    Loop Control

    Foray into feedforward control

    Greg McMillan
    There may be many more opportunities to preemptively correct for a measured disturbance via feedforward control than we realize.
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    Best practices in column control distilled, part 5

    Greg McMillan
    Greg concludes his conversation with Mark Darby and Doug Nicholson about optimal distillation control
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    Flow

    Realizing ratio control

    Greg McMillan
    Proactively keep units in balance without waiting for feedback correction