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![Process Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [Technical]](/documents/d/acom/right-control-strategies-automation-level-instrumentation-optimal-process-design-water-reclamation-wastewater.jpg)
Process Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [Technical]
Control strategies are used in wastewater treatment plants to improve effluent quality, lower operating costs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. -
AutoQuiz: Technical Characteristics of the Open Systems Interconnection Model
The presentation layer for protocols used in control systems provides the translation of data received into a usable format, such as binary data from a programmable logic controller into floating poin -
An Introduction to Operations Research in the Process Industries
Operations research concepts are well-known in the field of project management and are evident in Gantt charts and critical path method organization and planning. -
Mechatronics: The Evolution From Mechanical to Information-Based Industrial Automation
In industrial automation, the mechanical-to-informatics ratio has nearly inverted over the past two decades in diverse industries including assembly, energy distribution, and batch processing. -
AutoQuiz: How to Install Thermocouple Extension Wires
Proper installation of thermocouple extension wires requires special terminal blocks to prevent additional junctions from being formed. -
Webinar Recording: Lessons Learned During the Migration to a New DCS
DCS migration topics: proper setting of tuning parameters, controller output scales, anti-reset windup limits, grounding, wiring, & configuration practices. -
Licensure, ISA Turning 75, and the 2019 Annual Leadership Conference
ISA 2019 President Paul Gruhn discusses critical industry issues related to professional licensure. He also celebrates ISA's 75th birthday and invites readers to attend the annual ISA leadership confe -
AutoQuiz: How Are Errors Corrected in Industrial Network Data Communications?
Cyclic redundancy checking is a method of checking for errors in data that has been transmitted on a communications link. -
Radiometric Level Measurement: When Other Industrial Measuring Techniques Fail
Radiometric or gamma level/density instruments are most often used in applications where other measuring techniques fail. -
Lessons Learned From a Forensic Analysis of the Ukrainian Power Grid Cyberattack
The Ukrainian power grid cyberattack was triggered when an employee opened an Excel spreadsheet attachment of an email. -
AutoQuiz: How to Calibrate a High-Range Electronic Pressure Transmitter
A dead-weight tester apparatus uses known traceable weights to apply pressure to a fluid for checking the accuracy of readings from a pressure gauge or pressure transmitter. -
How IIoT Helps OEM Machine Builders Support Customers and Improve Equipment Availability
IIoT enables machine builders to provide better service and support to customers and improve equipment availability. -
PIC 2019: Shedding Light on Critical Process Industry Issues
ISA’s Process Industry Conference offers a turnkey experience for gaining important foundational knowledge and training. -
AutoQuiz: What Is Receipt Verification in Industrial Processes?
Receipt verification is an industrial systematic process by which a site verifies that what was specified and ordered is actually what is received. -
Pipeline Leak Size: If We Can’t See It, We Can’t Detect It
Pieplein leaks produce flow at locations and times associated with the leak event. The occurrence, size, location, stability, and impact are all stochastic. -
![Improved Process Control Strategy for Crude Oil Fractional Distillation [Technical]](/documents/d/acom/maintenance-management-increase-productivity-minimize-production-costs-oil-gas-industry-1.jpg)
Improved Process Control Strategy for Crude Oil Fractional Distillation [Technical]
High variability in dynamic characteristics of a crude oil refinery distillation column poses a challenge in manufacturing quality byproducts. -
AutoQuiz: What Industrial Troubleshooting Technique Can Help Replace a Bad Component?
The substitution method may reveal the component that is the cause of the problem. -
Webinar Recording: Small Batch Manufacturing
Tips and lessons on the use of anti-reset windup limits, override control, isolation valves, smart alarms, mass flowmeters, and the enforcement of low-flow limits. -
Ensuring the Free Flow of Information: Routing Approaches for Complex Industrial Networks
Every configured device added to an industrial network can act as a barrier to getting information to where it needs to be. -
AutoQuiz: What is a Database Record?
A database record is a single row of information in a table.
![Process Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [Technical]](/o/adaptive-media/image/7882253/small-576/right-control-strategies-automation-level-instrumentation-optimal-process-design-water-reclamation-wastewater.jpg?t=1772462461774)
![Improved Process Control Strategy for Crude Oil Fractional Distillation [Technical]](/o/adaptive-media/image/7873792/small-576/maintenance-management-increase-productivity-minimize-production-costs-oil-gas-industry-1.jpg?t=1772461252607)