Process Control

Course content

Example modeling of liquid, economic, biological, chemical processes. Distributed parameter systems and their lumped parameter approximations. Models and effects of actuators and measurement devices. Control modes and architectures: on-off, proportional, integral, derivative (PID) control modes. PID design methods: direct design, Intemal Model Control (IMC) based design, Zygler-Nichols closed-loop design. Control loop architectures: single loop, cascade, disturbance feedforward, feedforward-feedback, and IMC. Pure time-delay in the control loop: modeling, stability effects and compensation methods.