Product Description

This text offers a modern view of process control in the context of today's technology. The book provides the standard material in a more coherent presentation and uses a notation that is more consistent with the research literature in process control. Topics that are unique include a unified approach to model representations, process control formulation and process identification, multivariable control, statistical quality control, and model based control.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #445144 in Books
• Published on: 1995-02-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1296 pages

Customer Reviews

A practical introduction to process control
This book provides an excellent, practical introduction to process control from the view of Chemical Engineers.

The book begins by considering the development of dynamic process models. It covers practical questions such as which state variable (eg. height) should be controlled by which manipulated variable (eg. flowrate) by discussing the physical behaviour of the system, rather than the approach commonly used by control engineers of an electronics background.

The advantage of the book is that it then goes on to discuss tools such as Nyquist diagrams and Bode plots, and how they can be used to characterise a system's behaviour, in a simple and clear manner. It then addresses essential issues such as controller tuning.

Finally, the book briefly introduces advanced control topics, such as Kalman filters and Model based control, in simple terms which would give an interested reader a running start into these fields.

My only regret is that I have lost my personal copy!