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This book takes a fascinating and entertaining approach to capturing and extending plant and control room experiences. A combination of exciting case histories and humor is used to reveal what really matters for a successful implementation of process control improvements. The emphasis throughout is on the experience gained (often the hard way) during the checkout and commissioning of challenging applications. The "Facts of Life" concisely summarize the lessons learned. The detailed humorous descriptions of problems encountered and innovative solutions found are conceptualized to provide guidance for applications that appear different but share similar opportunities. This book is intended to go beyond what is offered in the literature in terms of theory to document what really matters for pressure, pH, temperature, and surge control--and the automated startup and shutdown of processes.

Process control --- advanced control --- automated startups --- expert systems --- furnace pressure control --- pH control --- reactor temperature control --- reactor startup --- surge control --- titration curve --- valve response