In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...

An operations planning and economics improvement project at ConocoPhillips's Lake Charles, La., refinery successfully developed and implemented high-quality kinetic process models used for unit ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

The term “optimization” has been used so much, for so many things, that by now it has almost no meaning. Recently, the term “fleet optimization” has been bandied about, with the implication that by ...

Artificial intelligence speeds metasurface design from unit cells to full optical systems, enabling compact imaging, AR and VR displays and advanced LiDAR. (Nanowerk News) Optical metasurfaces, with ...