Process Control

Reduce energy and maintenance costs with advanced control solutions.

Feed variability, temperature changes, and pressure fluctuations can upset distillation processes. Over-purifying the gases leads to higher energy usage and cost while unreliable equipment can lead to slowdowns or shutdowns.

Emerson’s distillation solutions can help you keep your product on-spec and minimize energy consumption with advanced sensors, transmitters, and process control technology to provide predictive diagnostics and optimized process control for a more profitable and energy efficient distillation operation.

Our advanced process control solutions utilize the Emerson DeltaV™ distributed control system (DCS) to optimize process performance.

Emerson's SmartProcess® Distillation Column Optimizer is a pre-engineered, modular solution for model predictive control (MPC) of distillation columns using DeltaV's embedded advanced process control (APC) technologies. The solution includes software and services to implement MPC and neural modules for control of any 2 or 3-product distillation column that enable you to:

Reduce product quality variation and off-spec production
Minimize quality giveaways
Minimize energy consumption per unit of feed
Increase recovery of more valuable products
Maximize feed rate upon demand
Increase column throughput
Lower costs of implementation

Advanced process instrumentation and valve technology for air separation unit applications

Our industry leading process instrumentation, and control and isolation valves provide single-source measurement and final control solutions that increase manufacturing efficiency, reliability, safety and product quality.

Best-in-class Rosemount™ process instrumentation and Fisher™ control valve technologies enhance performance and predictable outcomes through advanced asset health diagnostics and self-calibration. Our device diagnostics enable improved reliability, streamlined proactive maintenance scheduling/planning, and more effective troubleshooting.

Control Associates also offers the complete portfolio of Emerson isolation valves for a wide range of warm end and cold box process applications including KTM™ ball valves, Vanessa™ triple offset valves (TOV) for cryogenic applications, Keystone™ Figure 360/362 and 370/372 K-LOK high performance butterfly valves for high cycle applications and Bettis™ valve actuators.