Syllabus
Topics covered
We will cover a broad range of topics including:
- Cascade, Ratio and Feedforward control.
- PID Enhancements: inferential, over-ride and selective control; scheduling controller tuning; implementation
- Other Advanced Control Techniques: deadtime compensation; adaptive control (programmed adaptation; self-tuning control; online parameter estimation).
- Multi-input Multi-output Systems: process and control loop interactions; control loop pairings; decoupling control systems; multivariable control.
- Digital Control Systems: Z transforms; discrete time models; dynamic response; discrete time control algorithms; closed loop analysis; digital control system implementation. Review of process modeling and simulation techniques. Modeling for Fault Diagnosis: prediction-based and identification-based diagnosis. Empirical Modeling: linear and non-linear models; artificial neural networks; ARMAX models.
- Modeling Hybrid (Discrete- Continuous) Systems: representation and solution.
- Case Studies and Applications in Process Engineering.
Course materials
Books
The books listed in the course reading list will be very useful reference material for topics covered in the course.
The content is mainly based on following books.
- Riggs and Karim (2007)
- Seborg et al. (2016)
- Romagnoli and Palazoglu (2020)
- (coughanowr2008?)
Besides these books the following online books are useful as well.
Other materials
- Process control - Analysis, Design, and Assessment course from IIT Madras by Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy. The YouTube play list is here.
- Process Dynamics and Control course from BYU by Prof. John D. Hedengren.
- Prof. Douglas Cooper’s Control Guru website.
MATLAB
We will use MATLAB extensively. The MathWorks website has tons of resources to help you learn MATLAB.
Course structure
Course policies
Please refer to the unit outline posted on blackboard for assessment policies, assessments, grades, and pass requirements.
References
Marlin, T. E. 1995. Process Control: Designing Processes and Control Systems for Dynamic Performance. McGraw-Hill. http://pc-textbook.mcmaster.ca/.
Peter Woolf. n.d. “Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls.” https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Industrial_and_Systems_Engineering/Chemical_Process_Dynamics_and_Controls_(Woolf).
Riggs, James B., and M. Nazmul Karim. 2007. Chemical and Bio-Process Control. Pearson Education International. https://books.google.com?id=XxyfPQAACAAJ.
Romagnoli, Jose A., and Ahmet Palazoglu. 2020. Introduction to Process Control. CRC Press. https://books.google.com?id=tC3tDwAAQBAJ.
Seborg, Dale E., Thomas F. Edgar, Duncan A. Mellichamp, and Francis J. Doyle III. 2016. Process Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons. https://books.google.com?id=ZZVFEAAAQBAJ.