Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

Master Process Control Hands On, through Updated Practical Examples and MATLAB® Simulations

Process  Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation, Second Edition, is a  complete introduction to process control and has been fully updated,  integrating current software tools to enable professionals and students  to master critical techniques hands on through simulations based on  modern versions of MATLAB. This revised edition teaches the field's most  important techniques, behaviors, and control problems with even more  practical examples and exercises. Wide-ranging enhancements include  pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models, an expanded discussion of  digital control, additional plantwide control examples, and updates  throughout for newer versions of MATLAB and SIMULINK.

Fundamentals of process control and instrumentation, including objectives, variables, block diagrams, and process flowsheets

Methodologies for developing dynamic models of chemical processes, including compartmental models

Dynamic  behavior of linear systems: state space models, transfer function-based  models (including conversion to state space), and more

Empirical and discrete-time models, including relationships among types of discrete models

Feedback control; proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) controllers; and closed-loop stability analysis

Frequency response analysis techniques for evaluating the robustness of control systems

Improving  control loop performance: internal model control (IMC), automatic  tuning, gain scheduling, and enhanced disturbance rejection

Split-range,  selective, and override strategies for switching among inputs or  outputs Control loop interactions and multivariable controllers

An introduction to model predictive control (MPC), with a new discrete state space model derivation exercise

Bequette  walks step by step through developing control instrumentation diagrams  for an entire chemical process, reviewing common control strategies for  individual unit operations, then discussing strategies for integrated  systems. This edition also includes 16 learning modules demonstrating  how to use MATLAB and SIMULINK to solve many key control problems,  including new modules on plug flow reactors and digital control, as well  as a detailed new study of artificial pancreas systems for Type 1  diabetes.