A major part of Mr. Duff's career has been spent as BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER and Process Control Division Manager with HONEYWELL , who pioneered the concept of DC S . This experience includes the expansion of the SASOL group of co m panies in South Africa , where at the ti m e, SASOL 2 was the biggest DC S installation in the world . Following on fro m this was the up-grade of the NATREF refinery at Sasolburg; the SAPREF refinery and the ENGEN refinery, both in Durban . The ENGEN refinery is now one of the m ost m odern refineries in the world . It should also be noted that these refineries have integrated their Field Measurement devices through a plant-wide field-bus network . Other projects include the application of DC S system s in Kuwait , Iran and Italy , among other areas.
Gordon has also worked with TAYLOR INSTRUMENTS (now part of ABB ) who also introduced a Direct Digital Control ( D DC ) co m puter for Supervisory Control applications . In addition to Honeywell and ABB, Gordon worked for Scottish Aviation, British Aircraft Corp, John Brown Inc, and Krohne.
Gordon is one of those rare individuals who co m bine a strong theoretical knowledge with that of practical on the job experience . His working career for the past forty years has focused on Process Control and Instru m entation for industries ranging fro m aircraft to oil and gas to heavy m anufacturing . Gordon is the first to ad m it that he has m ade m istakes and learnt a lot in the nu m erous projects that he has co-ordinated or m anaged over the years. But what distinguishes Gordon fro m the acade m ic theorists is that he has done the hard yards and knows what works and doesn't . He doesn't m erely refer to a textbook but draws on real lif e e xperience where he has cut his teeth on real process control and instru m entation projects.
Gordon has a degree in Engineering fro m the Technical College of Blackpool - UK . Further, he has City & Guilds Full Tech Certificate (T4) fro m Kil m arnock Technical College - UK, an H.N.C. Mechanical Engineering Certificate fro m Harris College - UK and a Certificate in Electrical and Control Engineering fro m Harris College - UK .
Gordon has m any patents and publications that include: Develop m ent of a Three Bea m Ultrasonic Flow m eter , Applications Considerations on Radar Level Measure m ents , Review of Ultrasonic Flow m eters , etc.
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