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James Beall
James Beall is a principal process control consultant at Emerson Automation Solutions with more than 35 years of experience in process control. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and worked for Eastman Chemical Company until 2001, when he joined Emerson. His areas of expertise include process instrumentation, control valve performance, control strategy analysis and design, advanced regulatory control and multivariable, and model predictive control. He has designed and implemented process control improvement projects in the chemical, refinery, pulp and paper, power, pipeline, gas and oil, and pharmaceutical industries. Jamesl is a member of AIChE and ISA, and chair of ISA committee ISA75.25, Control Valve Dynamic Testing.
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How to Tune a PID Controller for Two of the Most Common Complex Dynamic Responses
Tuning a PID controller for two of the most common complex dynamic responses: self-regulating, second order; overdamped and integrator plus first order lag.By: James Beall05 December, 2018 | 12 minutes -
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How to Tune PID Controllers on Self-Regulating Processes
Self-regulating responses are very common in the process industry. Many flows, liquid pressures, temperatures, and composition processes are self-regulating. This post offers a method for tuning PID cBy: James Beall04 April, 2018 | 6 minutes -
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PID Controller Loop Tuning Primer: Working With Integrating Processes
A tuning methodology called lambda tuning solves many of the challenges of tuning a PID controller for an integrating process. The lambda tuning method allows the user to choose the closed loop responBy: James Beall26 February, 2018 | 6 minutes
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