Abstract:
An equipment isolation system (10) for remotely isolating equipment (20, 21) in a plant comprising equipment (20, 21) energisable by an energy source (30) and a control system (50,260) for controlling operation of said equipment (20, 21) and isolation of said equipment (20, 21) from said energy source (30) to an isolated state by an operator,wherein said control system (50, 260) includes an identification device for an operator to provide operator identification data to the control system (50, 260) as a step in using the isolation system (10).
Abstract:
The present invention generally pertains to a sensor (101), more particularly the present invention pertains to sensors for saving energy, wherein the sensor (101) comprising at least one input (11) for receiving signal, at least one output (12) for transmitting signal, and at least a sensing module (14) for sequentially sensing at least one activity of a user and determining power supply to at least one appliance by tracking a sequential predetermined period of time and detecting at least one activity.
Abstract:
Systems for analyzing a benefit or detriment of (1) changing an operational condition or parameter, or (2) adding a coke drum to an existing coking system are disclosed. Contemplated systems can increase the cost effectiveness of coking systems by providing valuable analysis data.
Abstract:
In general, techniques and systems for controlling a parameter of a target device are described. In one example, a method includes obtaining, by a computing device, control information from an identification device that is associated with a target device, wherein the control information identifies the target device and a parameter that at least partially defines operation of the target device. The method may also include detecting, by at least one sensor of the computing device, physical movement of the computing device subsequent to obtaining the control information and transmitting the control information and movement information to a networked device configured to adjust a value of the parameter of the target device based at least in part on a function of the movement information. The movement information may include information that indicates the detected physical movement.
Abstract:
A digital circuit implementing pulse width modulation controls power delivered in what one can model as a second order or higher order system. An exemplary control plant could embody a step-down switch mode power supply providing a precise sequence of voltages or currents to any of a variety of loads such as the core voltage of a semiconductor unique compared to its input/output ring voltage. An algorithm produces a specific sequence of pulses of varying width such that the voltage or current delivered to the load from the system plant closely resembles a critical damped step response. The specific pulse width modulation sequence controls a plant that provides a near critical damped step response in one embodiment without a feed- forward or feedback loop physically embodied in the control system thereby reducing the parts cost or control semiconductor production yield cost while enhancing noise immunity and long term reliability of the control system. The specific algorithm exhibits tolerance to variations of twenty percent or greater in output load or ten percent or greater in control plant element parameters thus maintaining near critical damped step response characteristics when actual parameter values deviate from initial estimates.
Abstract:
A method and a device for cutting a cellulose web, in which method the cellulose web (W) is guided between a first and a second roll (5a, 5b) rotating against each other and equipped with at least one cutting blade (10, 11). The peripheral speed (u 1 , u 2 ) of at least one roll (5a, 5b), is controlled in such a manner that the peripheral speed (u 1 ) of the first roll (5a) is higher than the peripheral speed (u 2 ) of the second roll (5b), and the cellulose web (W) is cut substantially in the direction of the radius (B) of the rotating rolls (5a, 5b).
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a controller and method useful for transferring control of a process control device between first and second control modes. The controller includes first and second servo control modules that generate first and second drive signals based on feedback information from first and second sensors for control of the process control device in accordance with first and second control modes, respectively. The controller also includes a feedback control transfer module that transfers control of the operation of the process control device from the first control mode to the second control mode based on the feedback information from the first sensor. In certain embodiments, such control transfer involves a control routine that initially generates the second drive signal based on the first drive signal to effectuate a smooth, bumpless transfer between the control modes.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a processing system that is capable of achieving substantially optimal control performance of a process facility on a "worst case" process system by accounting for changing system dynamics. The processing system includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device is operable to represent (i) at least one of a plurality of associated processes mathematically to define the various relationships among different inputs and outputs of the one or more represented associated processes, and (ii) uncertainty factors that are associated with these defined relationships. The uncertainty factors define a range of dynamics across which the one or more represented associated processes operate, an error in the mathematical representation, or, alternatively, some combination of the same. The processor is responsive to the mathematical representation and the uncertainty factors and is capable of determining tuning parameters for use by the control system to control the one or more represented associated processes and thereby cooperate to optimize said process facility.
Abstract:
Control and positioning devices (146, 33) wherein a digital position signal is generated indicative of the position of a moveable element (44) between limits and is supplied to a comparator device (146) and where a digital signal is also provided to the comparator device indicative of a selected position of the element (44) where the comparator (146) device compares the two digital signals and operates actuator device (36) to move the element (44) in a corrective direction toward the selected position where movement terminates upon arrival of the element (44) at the selected position.