Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

Master process control hands on, through practical examples and MATLAB® simulationsThis is the first complete introduction to process control that fully integrates software tools—enabling professionals and students to master critical techniques hands on, through computer simulations based on the popular MATLAB environment. Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation teaches the field's most important techniques, behaviors, and control problems through practical examples, supplemented by extensive exercises—with detailed derivations, relevant software files, and additional techniques available on a companion Web site. Coverage includes:Fundamentals of process control and instrumentation, including objectives, variables, and block diagramsMethodologies for developing dynamic models of chemical processesDynamic behavior of linear systems: state space models, transfer function-basedmodels, and moreFeedback control; proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) controllers; and closed-loop stability analysisFrequency response analysis techniques for evaluating the robustness of control systemsImproving control loop performance: internal model control (IMC), automatic tuning, gain scheduling, and enhancements to improve disturbance rejectionSplit-range, selective, and override strategies for switching among inputs or outputsControl loop interactions and multivariable controllersAn introduction to model predictive control (MPC)Bequette walks step by step through the development of control instrumentation diagrams for an entire chemical process, reviewing common control strategies for individual unit operations, then discussing strategies for integrated systems. The book also includes 16 learning modules demonstrating how to use MATLAB and SIMULINK to solve several key control problems, ranging from robustness analyses to biochemical reactors, biomedical problems to multivariable control.