Process dynamics and control /

This chemical engineering text provides a balanced treatment of the central issues in process control: process modelling, process dynamics, control systems, and process instrumentation. There is also full coverage of classical control system design methods, advanced control strategies, and digital c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seborg, Dale E.
Other Authors: Edgar, Thomas F., Mellichamp, Duncan A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2004]
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to process control
  • Theoretical models of chemical processes
  • Laplace transforms
  • Transfer function and state-space models
  • Dynamic behavior of first-order and second-order processes
  • Dynamic response characteristics of more complicated processes
  • Development of empirical models from process data
  • Feedback controllers
  • Control system instrumentation
  • Overview of control system design
  • Dynamic behavior and stability of closed-loop control systems
  • PID controller design, tuning, and troubleshooting
  • Frequency response analysis
  • Control system design based on frequency response analysis
  • Feedforward and ratio control
  • Enhanced single-loop control strategies
  • Digital sampling, filtering, and control
  • Multiloop and multivariable control
  • Real-time optimization
  • Model predictive control
  • Process monitoring
  • Batch process control
  • Introduction to plantwide control
  • Plantwide control system design
  • Appendix A : digital process control systems : hardware and software
  • Appendix B : review of thermodynamic concepts for conservation equations
  • Appendix C : use of MATLAB in process control
  • Appendix D : contour mapping and the principle of the arguement
  • Appendix E : dynamic models and parameters used for plantwide control chapters.