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The site brings value to the users of Advanced Process Control (APC) technology within the Refining and Petrochemical industry by providing up-to-date information, which is essential when installing, upgrading or maintaining the technology. We strongly believe that the application of APC technology is highly profitable and are therefore promoting its wide use through exchange of ideas and technical discussions among the users and the suppliers. We also believe that this goal can only be achieved through an independent virtual community with no affiliations to the software and engineering companies.
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Re: What is the point of Closed Loop Steptesting and modelID for MVC's?
In addition to that, there is no optimization when doing Closed Loop Steptesting and the general practice is to switch the LP (or QP) off during steptesting. Also I believe in practice to get decent models when steptesting in Closed Loop, the steps have to be a bit ...
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APC-network.com Editorial: KEROSENE FLASH-POINT CONTROL
On crude fractionators economics often calls for maximizing kerosene and minimizing naphtha production, and such maximization is as effective as our ability to infer and control kerosene flashpoint, deceptively simple and practically quite difficult.
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EXIDA Certifies Moore Industries STA Safety Trip Alarm for Functional Safety
Thursday, April 12, 2012:
exida, an accredited global certification company, has certified Moore Industries’ STA logic solver for functional safety, ensuring that it meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.
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IBM Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Computing
ARMONK, N.Y. - 11 Apr 2012: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a major step forward in a new, simpler era of computing with the introduction of a new category of "expert integrated systems." This new family is the first with built-in expertise based on IBM's decades of experience running IT operations for tens of thousands of clients in 170 countries.
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AspenTech Sponsors Professional Tennis Player James Blake
BURLINGTON, MA — April 9, 2012 — Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced it has signed a global sponsorship agreement with professional tennis player James Blake.
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SAIC Executes Contract with Chevron
McLean, Va.) April 5, 2012-- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI] announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, LLC, has executed an environmental services contract with Chevron Environmental Management Company, a subsidiary of Chevron
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STATISTICA Decisioning Platform Profiled in Review of Decision Management Solutions
4/4/2012 : StatSoft’s (http://www.statsoft.com) STATISTICA Decisioning Platform™ is the only enterprise predictive analytics and decision management software platform to combine predictive analytics, text mining, and rules. STATISTICA Decisioning Platform™ covers all aspects of mission-critical enterprise predictive analytics
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Translating Knowledge into Business Results
New York, Apr 3, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - "It is the people in organizations, their knowledge and how that is translated into actions that produces results," according to Deborah Ung, Executive Vice President, RWD, A Division of GP Strategies. Workplace inefficiencies are often due to employees not understanding how to apply their knowledge into actions that produce business outcomes, she adds.
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Axens Technologies for IRPC Public Company Limited in Thailand
APRIL 2 - 2012: IRPC Public Company Limited, a company specialized in the production of Petrochemical and Refining products in Thailand, selected Axens to supply technologies for its new Upstream Project for Hygiene and Value Added Product (UHV project). The complex is due to come on stream in 2015. The project aims at converting atmospheric residue to high value propylene and aromatics rich gasoline cut.
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GSE Systsems CEO Interviewed by the Wall Street Reporter
Sykesville, MD – March 30, 2012 - GSE Systems, Inc. (“GSE” or “the Company”) (NYSE Amex: GVP), a global energy services solutions provider, today announced that the Wall Street Reporter has conducted an audio interview with CEO Jim Eberle. The interview includes an overview of GSE’s business and history, recent developments, and corporate strategy.
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Record-breaking safety performance by Neste Jacobs
29 March 2012 at 09.00 (EET): Record-breaking safety performance by Neste Jacobs
Neste Jacobs has achieved a record safety performance, a full year without a single accident. This meets the company’s Total Recordable Injury Frequency (TRIF*) target of zero and covers Neste Jacobs’ own staff, as well as contractors and sub-contractors. The milestone was reached on March 18, and the total number of hours without an accident was 1.6 million. Neste Jacobs’ own personnel worked almost 500 days without an accident.
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Spartan is Now the Exclusive Distributor in Canada for Platinum Control Technologies' Burner Management Systems
March 26, 2012: Spartan Controls is pleased to announce that it is now the exclusive distributor for Platinum Control Technologies for the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Platinum Control manufactures a technologically advanced burner management system (BMS) that helps oil and gas companies improve safety, productivity and compliance
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Process Manufacturers Must Optimize Their Network of Assets to Drive Higher Margins
BURLINGTON, MA — March 26, 2012 — Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced the availability of a new white paper, The Evolution of Optimization in the Process Industries.The paper says process manufacturing leaders must optimize networks of plants and assets to drive higher margins in response to geographic market shifts.
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Emerson introduces combustion flue gas analyzer
IRVINE, CALIF. (March 26, 2011) – Emerson today announced the release of the latest solution for combustion flue gas analysis, the Rosemount Analytical Model 6888 in situ oxygen analyzer. The Model 6888 provides accurate measurement of the oxygen remaining in the flue gases coming from combustion processes such
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API Releases Baker& O’Brien Addendum Report to Gasoline Study
Mar 22, 2012:
The report is an addendum to the report “Addendum to Potential Supply and Cost Impacts of Lower Sulfur, Lower RVP Gasoline” released in July 2011. It examines an additional scenario with lower sulfur requirements than current gasoline specifications with current RVP gasoline specifications.
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Metso receives an arbitration award of EUR 10 million
Published Feb 21, 2012: Metso has received an arbitration award in its favor amounting to EUR 10 million plus around EUR 2 million in interest. The arbitration process was related to a large project delivery in Turkey
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Control solution for Thames Water
16 Mar 2012: Capula has been awarded a key contract to update the control system at Thames Water's Ashford Water Treatment Works.
The site supplies clean water resource to several hundred thousand customers across Thames Water’s network and is of a similar scale to their Walton site where Capula has delivered a number of PLC and SCADA upgrade projects.
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