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Dr. Harold L. Wade is the principal of Wade Associates, Inc. Dr. Wade has over 40 years experience in the instrumentation and process control field, with Honeywell, Foxboro, Biles & Associates, and since 1983 with Wade Associates, Inc. He was a 2002 inductee into CONTROL magazine's into "Process Automation Hall of Fame." Dr. Wade consults with users and manufacturers in the areas of process control in control strategy development, product development and product marketing assistance. |
| Dr. Wade conducts process control seminars with ISA and other organizations, both within the US and world-wide. | |
Process Experience: Petroleum refining, crude and vacuum units, distillation, crude preheat trains. Gas processing. Ammonia plants. Textile dyeing processes. Water and waste water treatment facilities.
Recent Publications:
Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application. ( I S A. 2004)
"Inverted Decoupling: the Neglected Technique. " ISA Transactions, 36, 1, 1997.
"Trial and Error: an Organized Procedure." InTech, April 2005.
"Tanked" (An analytical approach for tuning liquid level control loop). DeltaTech, supplement to InTech, August 2005.
"Survey of Override Control Techniques." Control, Part 1. December 2005. Part 2. January 2006.
| A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge. V. Trevathan, Ed. ISA 2006 | |
| Section I - 3. Continuous Control. |
Process Control and Optimization (Instrument Engineers’ Handbook) Fourth Edition. B. Lipták, Editor. CRC Press /Taylor & Francis Group. 2006.
| Section 2.3. Control Modes – PID Variations. (co-authored) | |
| Section 2.4. Control Modes – Digital PID Controllers. | |
| Section 2.36 – Tuning Level Control Loops. |
Academic:
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Oklahoma State University
M.S. and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering. Case-Western Reserve University
Awards:
Dr. Wade was a 2002 inductee into Control Magazine's "Process Automation Hall of Fame."
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