Chemical And Biomedical Process Control And Dynamics

The practice of process control and its applications in the chemical processing industry; Incentives for chemical process control. Feedback and feedforward control configurations. Design of controllers. Mathematical modeling of dynamic processes. Linearization of nonlinear systems. Laplace transforms. Solution of linear ordinary differential equations using Laplace transforms. Response of open-loop systems. First-order systems, second-order systems, higher-order systems, time delays, inverse response systems, transfer functions. Components of a control loop. Closed-loop transfer functions. Transient response of simple closed-loop control systems. Types of controllers. Stability of controller operation. Frequency response methods. Nyquist Stability Theorem. Feedback control. Feedforward control. Cascade Control. Multivariable control systems.