Process control engineering

Martin Polke3527286896, 9783527286898

This book surveys methods, problems, and tools used in process control engineering. Its scope has been purposely made broad in order to permit an overall view of this subject. This book is intended both for interested nonspecialists who wish to become acquainted with the discipline of process control engineering and for process control engineers, who should find it helpful in identifying individual tasks and organizing them into a coherent whole. A central concern of this treatment is to arrive at a consistent and comprehensive way of thinking about process control engineering and to show how the several specialities can be organically fitted into this total view.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Process Control Engineering……Page 2
Preface……Page 7
Biographical Notes……Page 9
Contents……Page 11
1 Introduction……Page 13
2 Information Structures in Process Control Engineering……Page 16
3 Knowledge about the Process……Page 51
4 From Process Knowledge to Process Control……Page 83
5 The Process Control System and Its Elements: Process Sensor Systems……Page 122
6 The Process Control System and Its Elements: Process Actuator Systems……Page 194
7 The Process Control System and Its Elements: Distributed Control Systems……Page 225
8 The Process Control System and Its Elements: Information Logistics……Page 270
9 Computer-Aided Methods……Page 289
10 Design and Construction of Process Control Systems……Page 298
11 Operation……Page 339
12 Standards, Committees, and Associations……Page 379
13 Integration of Knowledge-Based Systems in Process Control Engineering……Page 395
14 Appendix……Page 417
15 References……Page 435
Index……Page 455