This much-needed text offers an up-to-the-minute introduction to process control in today's technology. Outstanding in its breadth and coherence, the book combines a classroom-tested overview of theory with a wealth of examples taken from the chemical process industry.

PART I: Introduction 1. Introductory Concepts of Process Control 2. Introduction to Control System Implementation PART II: Process Dynamics 3. Basic Elements of Dynamic Analysis 4. The Process Model 5. Dynamic Behavior of Linear Low Order-Systems 6. Dynamic Behavior of Linear Higher Order-Systems 7. Inverse-Response Systems 8. Time-Delay Systems 9. Frequency-Response Analysis 10. Nonlinear Systems 11. Stability PART III: Process Modeling and Identification 12. Theoretical Process Modeling 13. Process Identification: Empirical Process Modeling PART IV: Process Control Part IVA: Single-Loop Control 14. Feedback Control Systems 15. Conventional Feedback Controller Design 16. Design of More Complex Control Structures 17. Controller Design for Processes with Difficult Dynamics 18. Controller Design for Nonlinear Systems 19. Model-Based Control Part IVB: Multivariable Process Control 20. Introduction to Multivariable Systems 21. Interaction Analysis and Multiple Single Loop Design 22. Design of Multivariable Controllers Part IVC: Computer Process Control 23. Introduction to Sampled-Data Systems 24. Tools of Discrete-Time Systems Analysis 25. Dynamic Analysis of Discrete-Time Systems 26. Design of Digital Controllers PART V: Special Control Topics 27. Model Predictive Control 28. Statistical Process Control 29. Selected Topics in Advanced Process Control 30. Process Control System Synthesis -- Some Case Studies PART VI: Appendices A. Control System Symbols used in Process and Instrumentation Diagrams B. Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Difference Equations C. Laplace and z-Transformations D. Review of Matrix Algebra E. Computer-Aided Control System Design Author Index Subject Index

Babatunde A. Ogunnaike and W. Harmon Ray

"An excellent and comprehensive book with updated treatment of important modern topics."--William Clements, University of Alabama |k No