Content of Essential Process Control for Chemical Engineers by Dr. Bruce Postlethwaite
Introduction
Why do we need control?
Instrumentation
What is an instrument?
Factors to be considered in selecting an instrument
Instruments for temperature measurement
Pressure measurement
Flow measurement
Level measurement
Chemical composition
Communication signals
Types of communication signal
Final control elements
Control valves
Control valve sizing
Diagrams for process control systems
Process flow diagrams (PFDs)
Piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)
Inputs and outputs in control systems
Process inputs
Process outputs
Processes in control engineering
An example of variables and processes
Introduction to feedback control
Feedback control and block diagrams
Positive and negative feedback
Control loop problems
Direction of control action
Controller hardware
Introduction to steady-state and dynamic response
Steady-state gain
Dynamic response
Dynamic modelling
Laplace transforms
Derivation of basic transforms
Solution of differential equations using Laplace transforms
Transfer functions
Block Diagrams
Block diagram algebra
Solutions of responses for high-order systems
Forming dynamic models
Analytical solution of real-world models
Types of non-linearity
Linearization of non-linear equations
Simplifying expressions through deviation variables
Procedure for simplifying and solving a non-linear model
Putting it all together – a reactant balance for a CSTR
PID Controller algorithm
Really simple feedback controller – on-off
Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control
Proportional only control
Integral only control
Derivative action
Proportional-Integral (PI) control
PID control response
Other forms of PID algorithm
Control system analysis
Analysis of a typical feedback control system
The PID algorithm as a transfer function
Analysis of proportional control of a first-order process
Example of a first order process under proportional control
Example of a second-order process under proportional control
Analysis of integral control of a first-order process
Controller tuning
What needs to be done to tune a PID Controller?
How do you decide what is a good controller performance?
Some methods of controller tuning
Control loop health monitoring
Control loop diagnostics
More advanced single-loop control arrangements
Cascade control
Selective or auctioneering control
Override control
Ratio control
Feedforward control
Design of control systems
Control envelope
Multivariable processes
How to determine the number of controlled variables
Plantwide mass balance control
Control system architecture
The effect of technology on process plant control rooms
Human factors in control room displays
Distributed control systems
Safety Instrumented Systems
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This book is based on the course notes from the introductory process control class at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. This course is itself based on the IChemE model-curriculum for chemical engineers and covers the material that ALL chemical engineers are supposed know. The IChemE curriculum was drawn up by a team of industrialists and academics, led by Professor Jon Love, in response to a recognized need for chemical engineers to be taught a more industrially relevant course. This book isn’t a traditional academic textbook in that there are no references anywhere in the text.
The main reason for this is that the material has been gathered from many different sources after a working lifetime of teaching in the area and trying to identify an original source is impossible. I have included a bibliography for readers who wish to look further into the subject.
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