Process Control Design and Practice

• This series of Video Lectures, with accompanying text and exercises, teaches how to translate Process Objectives into Control Objectives for an automated process plant.

• Students will learn to use feedback techniques to design effective control schemes with cascade and split-range controllers, and continuous constraint controllers to address conflicting objectives

  • Function Block Diagrams will be used for continuous system design

• Digital Logic will be used to incorporate Boolean constraints in the form of interlocks and permissives

• Batch control concepts will be introduced, including the S88 standard. Students will write recipes made up of phases to execute sequential logic.

  • Sequential Function Charts will be used for sequential logic

• Students will learn how to write a Functional Specification to describe a control system design to other professionals

• Chemical Models will be incorporated into designs using Feedforward Control

• Students will be introduced to different types of sensors, valves, and pumps; their strengths and weaknesses in different applications

• An introduction to modern control system architecture will be provided for Chemical Engineers

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