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COVER STORY
R&D: Fast track to success
As global players with worldwide presence enter the Indian chemical industry, domestic companies are continually enhancing and differentiating the performance and dependability of its processes.
- Balakrishnan Nair
   
IT
Performance-based automation through enterprise control systems
The two emerging paradigms, viz., enterprise control systems and asset performance management (APM), together are posed to provide business performance improvements
-Peter G Martin
   
TECHNOLOGY
Computer aided design & dynamic simulation of distillation column
The present paper stimulates the control of ideal binary distillation column for top and bottom composition using the PI controller with the aid of MATLAB simulation package.
R W Gaikwad & A K Chauhan
   
APPLICATION
Simulation studies on stable PI controller parameters
The main objective of this paper is to compute the stable parameters of a PI controller for air flow temperature system (AFTS). The AFTS is approximated as first order plus time delay (FOPTD) model
- P K Bhaba , S Somasundaram , T Karunanithi and S E Hamamci