Process control fundamentals : analysis, design, assessment, and diagnosis / Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Babji Srinivasan, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rengaswamy, Raghunathan, author.

Srinivasan, Babji, author.

Bhatt, Nirav Pravinbhai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical process control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This comprehensive textbook covers key aspects including analysis, design, assessment and diagnosis of process control. It will help serve as ideal study material for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of chemical engineering for a course on process control"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

1.1 Single-Input-Single-Output and Multi-Input-Multi-Output Controllers

1.2 Regulatory and Servo Control Problems

1.3 Dynamic Behaviour of Processes

1.4 Summary

2. Models for Control

2.1 Nonlinear State-space Models

2.2 Linearization and Linear State-space Models

2.3 Transfer Function Models

2.4 Summary

2.5 Problems and Solutions

2.6 Exercises

3. Process Identification

3.1 Identification of First-order Processes

3.2 Identification of First-order Plus Time-delay Processes

3.3 Identification of Second-order Processes

3.3.1 Identification of Underdamped Second-order Systems

3.3.2 Identification of Overdamped Second-order Systems

3.4 Summary

3.5 Problems and Solutions

3.6 Exercises

4. Analysis of Transfer Function Models

4.1 Partial Fractions Approach for Solving Transfer Functions

4.2 Stability of Transfer Function

4.3 Summary

4.4 Problems and Solutions

4.5 Exercises

5. Controllers and Analysis of Closed-loop Transfer Functions

5.1 PID Controllers

5.2 Analysis of Block Diagram

5.3 Routh Stability Analysis

5.4 Summary

5.5 Problems and Solutions

5.6 Exercises

6. Controller Tuning

6.1 Stability-based Ziegler-Nichols Tuning

6.2 Tuning Based on Direct Synthesis

6.2.1 Inverse Response Systems

6.2.2 Systems with Time-delay

6.2.3 Unstable Systems

6.3 Internal Model Control

6.4 Summary

6.5 Problems and Solutions

6.6 Exercises

7. MIMO Control Concepts

7.1 Cascade Control

7.2 Feed-forward Control

7.3 Relative Gain Array

7.4 Static Decoupler

7.5 Dynamic Decoupling

7.6 Multivariable PID control

7.7 Summary

7.8 Problems and Solutions

7.9 Exercises

8. Model Predictive Control

8.1 MPC and PID.

8.2 Key Aspects of MPC

8.3 Development of Discrete Models

8.4 MPC Formulation

8.4.1 MPC Demonstration through a Simple Example

8.5 Bias Removal in MPC

8.6 Summary

8.7 Problems and Solutions

8.8 Exercises

9. Fundamentals of Controller Performance Assessment

9.1 Performance Assessment of Control Loops

9.2 Identifying Drifts

9.3 Identifying Poor Dynamics

9.3.1 Model-based Approach - DS/IMC Tuning Rule Based Indices

9.3.1.1 Algorithm for Development of SIMC Based Performance Indices

9.3.2 Idle Index Technique for Identification of Sluggish Control Loops

9.4 Time Series Analysis: Preliminaries

9.5 Identifying Increased Variability

9.5.1 Minimum Variance Index

9.5.2 Scaling Exponent Based Measure

9.5.2.1 Implications of the Scaling Exponent to Control Loop Performance Assessment

9.6 Detecting Oscillations

9.6.1 Decay-ratio Approach for Oscillation Detection

9.7 Summary

9.8 Problems and Solutions

9.9 Exercises

10. Fundamentals of Controller Performance Diagnosis

10.1 Control Valve and Stiction

10.2 Modeling of Stiction

10.2.1 One Parameter Model for Valve Stiction

10.3 Identification of Stiction in Control Valves

10.3.1 Shape-based Approach for Stiction Detection

10.3.2 Hammerstein Model-based Approach for Stiction Detection

10.4 Oscillations Due to Improper Controller Tuning

10.5 Summary

10.6 Exercises

11. Case Studies

11.1 3 x 3 Distillation Column

11.1.1 RGA Analysis

11.1.2 Decouplers

11.1.3 Model Predictive Controller

11.1.4 Simulations Results

11.1.5 Controller Performance Assessment and Diagnosis

11.2 Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR)

11.2.1 Model Predictive Controller

11.3 Summary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-05620-1

0-367-43343-5

1-000-05616-3

9780367433437

OCLC:

1150825035