A Real-Time Approach to Process Control

Professor William Y. Svrcek, Dr Donald P. Mahoney, Dr Brent R. Young9780470025345, 9780470029541, 0470025344, 0470025336, 9780470025338

This textbook for senior chemical engineering students provides a hands-on introduction to process control by using only time-based representations of the process and the associated instrumentation and control. The discussion covers process design versus controllability trade-offs, computer simulation, control loop configurations, tuning, and techniques for the control of vessels and distillation columns.