James Beall is a principal process control consultant at Emerson Automation Solutions with more than 35 years of experience in process control. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and worked for Eastman Chemical Company until 2001, when he joined Emerson. His areas of expertise include process instrumentation, control valve performance, control strategy analysis and design, advanced regulatory control and multivariable, and model predictive control. He has designed and implemented process control improvement projects in the chemical, refinery, pulp and paper, power, pipeline, gas and oil, and pharmaceutical industries. Jamesl is a member of AIChE and ISA, and chair of ISA committee ISA75.25, Control Valve Dynamic Testing.
