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Changing Lives One Analyzer At A Time

Phil Harris

HariTec

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Specialization is for Insects

A human being should be able to :

change a diaper, plan an invasion,

butcher a hog, balance accounts,

pitch manure, solve equations,

cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently,

and die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects !Robert Heinlein


Technologists and Artists


The Revolutionary Years

• 1940’s and 1950’s

– From Wet Chemistry to Process Instrumentation

• Beckman develops “acidometer” in 1934

• Charles Elmer and Richard Perkin Start Optics Company

• Hewlett and Packard start electronics company (1947)


Days of Toxic Darkness

Early Afternoon Dec 08, 1952


History of Analysis

• 1950’s – Beginnings of Instrumentation

• 1960’s – Mass Consumerism and the process line

• 1970’s – Environmental– “I have become convinced that the 1970’s must be the years when

America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming its air, its waters and our living environment” Richard Nixon Jan 1st 1970

• 1980’s – Bhopal, Chernobyl and Corporate Citizenship

• 1990’s – Consultants and Kyoto

• The 21st Century – “dot.com” envy Analysis too much like hard work


Analyzer Specialists

• “Can’t tell if your winning or losing, if you don’t keep score”

• Three important areas– Personal and Facility Safety

– Process Control

– Environmental Monitoring


Personal and Facility Safety– Personal Monitors

• Injury & loss of life• Loss of use of destroyed property & equipment • OSHA fines• Civil suit judge & jury awards • Damage to corporate reputation• Damage to workplace moral

– Fence line Monitors• Tunable Diode Lasers

• Refineries, Chemicals, Smelting

• Facility protection and communities

– Hazardous Locations• Explosion Proofing


Process Analyzers

Understand the Process

Sample System

What Device ?

Analyzer House

Data Communications


Environmental

• Air Pollution– Reducing dramatically in the developed world

• London – SO2 and Particulate reduced by 10 x

• SO2 emissions in Western World down by ~ 75%

Despite Six-fold increase in road traffic

Better Scorekeeping Better Controls


Specialization

An Analyzer Specialist should be able to :Tune a loop, calibrate a GC,Coach an engineer, optimize a process,Educate a vendor, spec a valve, Solve an equation, convert units, and …

Change a diaper

Specialization is for accountants !


Parallel History in Oil Patch?

• Thirty years ago Geologist ruled– He could find oil

• Fifteen years ago reservoir engineer ruled– He could produce it

• Now the accountants rule– They can sell it

• Next, the lawyers will rule when they divest of it


Environmentalists, Profit takers and Analyzer Specialists

“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the side of the mountains that support life, not the top. Knowledge is the spirit of the valley, not the mountain. The only knowledge you find on the tops of mountains is the knowledge you bring there with you.”

Robert Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


What do you do ?

My Title is analyzer specialist, really I enable the facility I work in to protect the lives of employees and the community, to make profits while protecting the environment, to run efficiently, reliably and safely.

I put in place the systems that let the plant keep score – measure how safely we are running those processes, how well we are protecting the people that work there, and how we are doing at protecting the environment.

As a result, we run a safe facility that produces higher quality products at lower costs for consumers, while contributing to a cleaner environment for people today and our children in the future.

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