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Process systems analysis and control /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coughanowr, Donald R.
Other Authors: Koppel, Lowell B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1965]
Series:McGraw-Hill chemical engineering series.
Subjects:
Chemical engineering.
Automatic control.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • An introductory example
  • The laplace transform
  • Inversion by partial fractions
  • Further properties of transforms
  • Response of first-order systems
  • Physical examples of first-order systems
  • Response of first-order systems in series
  • Higher-order systems : second-order and transportation lag
  • The control system
  • Controllers and final control elements
  • Block diagram of a chemical-reactor control system
  • Closed-loop transfer functions
  • Transient response of simple control systems
  • Stability
  • Root locus
  • Transient response from root locus
  • Application of root locus to control systems
  • Introduction to frequency response
  • Control system design by frequency response
  • Closed-loop response by frequency-response methods
  • The Nyquist stability criterion
  • Controller mechanisms - Control of complex processes
  • Experimental dynamics of complex processes
  • Theoretical analysis of complex processes
  • Phase space
  • Methods of phase-plane analysis
  • Examples of phase-plane analysis
  • The describing function technique
  • Linear computer operations
  • Nonlinear computer operations
  • Simulation of control systems
  • Appendix : Proof of root--locus rules of chapter 15
  • Index.