Process Control Modules: A Software Laboratory for Control Design

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Features

• Flexible lab sessions—The modules include both open-ended and fixed time duration (2 hours) problems.

  • Offers instructors a range of modules' difficulty.

• Realistic process simulation models—Not low-order linear approximations.

  • Provides students with an excellent set of virtual experiments.

• A wide range of control issues—e.g., process identification, stability analysis, single-loop tuning, decoupling design, and others.

  • Allows students to explore all aspects of process control.

• Things to Think About sections.

  • Provides students with advance organizers to be completed before each lab to maximize and focus students' actual time at the computer.

• Compatibility with the Student Edition of MATLAB/Simulink.

  • Allows instructors to assign the modules as the basis of homework or for a course project.

• An accompanying CD-ROM—Contains MATLAB/Simulink files. The routines work with the Student Editions of MATLAB and Simulink as well as the regular version of MATLAB 5.3 (Simulink 2.1). The C-code which underlies the process unit operations is included in executable format, suitable for the PC, Unix and Mac environments.

  • Provides students and instructors with a single, self- contained source for lab work.

Description

2110G-8

The MATLAB-based process control guide for all chemical engineering professionals

Process control specialists have been leaders in recognizing the remarkable problem-solving power of MATLAB and similar tools. With this book, chemical engineering professionals and students each have a comprehensive, MATLAB-based lab manual for process control. Together, the 13 MATLAB/Simulink Process Control Modules presented in this book deliver a thorough introduction to real-world process control, built around two critical chemical engineering operations: binary distillation columns and furnaces. Using realistic process simulation models (not low-order linear approximations), readers will master all these key concepts and techniques:

• Steady state analysis and feedback control
• First-order and second-order dynamic system analysis
• Frequency domain and transient response analysis
• PID controller tuning, feedforward control, internal model control (IMC) and model predictive control (MPC)
• Discrete time system modeling and control

The models are sufficiently complex to expose users to all the complexities of real-world process data, including nonlinearity, high order dynamics, and noisy measurements. Modules are arranged to provide detailed objectives, before-and-after exercises that highlight key issues, detailed step-by-step procedures, and clear summaries. Process Control Modules can serve as an ideal self-paced study guide, an excellent companion to a formal process control course, and a perfect review and refresher for practicing process engineers.

CD-ROM INCLUDED

CD-ROM includes all MATLAB/Simulink files used throughout the book.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

 1. Introduction to the Process Control Modules.


 2. Steady State Analysis.


 3. First-order Dynamic System Analysis.


 4. Second-order Dynamic System Analysis.


 5. Frequency Domain Analysis.


 6. Transient Response Analysis.


 7. Steady State Feedback Control.


 8. Controller Tuning.


 9. Feedforward Control.


10. IMC and Multivariable Control.


11. Discrete Time System Modeling.


12. Discrete Control.


13. Model Predictive Control.

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