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James Beall

Citation name

Beall, J. IV

Affiliation

Emerson Automation Solutions

State

TX

Country

USA

James Beall is a Principal Process Control Consultant at Emerson Automation Solutions with 40 years of experience in process control and instrumentation. James worked for Emerson for 20 years. Prior to Emerson, James worked for Eastman Chemical Company for 20 years. His areas of expertise include process instrumentation, control valve performance, control strategy analysis and design, advanced regulatory control and multivariable, model predictive control (MPC). He is a contributing author to Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition. He spends most of his time in plants implementing process control improvement projects in all process manufacturing industries.

Sessions chaired or co-chaired

Process Control and Optimization Developments III
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1115-8)

Authored

(96b) Loop Tuning Basics
2010 Spring Meeting & 6th Global Congress on Process Safety
(183c) Utilize Process Capacity and Controller Tuning to Attenuate Process Variability and Improve Process Performance
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
(73d) Good Process Control Improves Plant Availability and Reliability
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
(131b) Modern Loop Tuning Tutorial
2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety
(153a) How to Sell the Value of Digitalization with MPC
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
(202a) Tuning PID Controllers for Complex Integrating Process Dynamics
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
(137a) Unique Applications for Embedded Model Predictive Control Technology
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1109-7)
(186b) Specifying Control Valve Performance to Achieve Desired Process Performance
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1109-7)
(71a) Novel Techniques to Improve Polymer Reactor Temperature Controller Tuning
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1115-8)
(52b) An Activity Report on the Newly Formed ISA 5.9 Subcommittee on the PID Algorithm
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1115-8)
(26a) Implementation of Feed Forward with PID Controllers
2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety Proceedings

Associated proceedings 

2010 Spring Meeting & 6th Global Congress on Process Safety
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety
2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety
2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety Proceedings