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Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries
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Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries

by Mark P. Taylor, John J. Chen, Brent Richmond Young
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
252 pages
8h 17m
English
CRC Press
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6 Control for Aluminum Production
Mike Brisk, of Sydney University in Australia, performed surveys of
PID (proportional–integral–derivative) control loops in both the United
States and in Australia
3
because of a perceived lack of attention to the
basics of process control. He found that between 61 and 65% of the
100,000 PID loops surveyed in each country were not operating correctly
(either turned off/manual, or having exceeded their control ranges).
His conclusion from these surveys was that we need to pay attention
to the controllers and make sure they are operating before consider-
ing so called “advanced control” systems. This conclusion clearl ...
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ISBN: 9781466514690