Overview
Presents the practice of automatic process control along with the fundamental principles of control theory. Includes a generous number of case studies, problems, and examples taken from the authors' experience in industry. Directed to the process industries, discussing process dynamic response in terms of principles of material and energy balances, fluid flow, heat transfer, separation processes, and reaction kinetics. Shows how to develop simple process models, and describes control systems components and feedback.Synopsis
Presents the practice of automatic process control along with the fundamental principles of control theory. Includes a generous number of case studies, problems, and examples taken from the authors' experience in industry. Directed to the process industries, discussing process dynamic response in terms of principles of material and energy balances, fluid flow, heat transfer, separation processes, and reaction kinetics. Shows how to develop simple process models, and describes control systems components and feedback.
Booknews
New edition of a text presenting the practice of automatic process control along with the fundamental principles of control theory. It retains the principles from the 1987 edition but incorporates the new computer tools available. Among the topics are mathematical tools, dynamic systems of the first order and higher orders, tuning feedback controllers, and multivariable process control. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.