Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation(International Series in the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences)

Now updated throughout, Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation, 2nd Edition remains the only process control textbook that integrates MATLAB-based numerical solutions, fundamental content, and detailed illustrative examples throughout. Its up-to-date example modules offer deeper treatment of specific example processes and systems, and it thoroughly integrates the use of MATLAB code and Simulink block diagrams to solve problems.  B. Wayne Bequette systematically introduces undergraduate chemical and biological engineering students to the essentials of process modeling, dynamics and control, offers extensive background material for graduate process control courses, and shares valuable insights for practitioners who want to understand modern model-based control techniques. Coverage in this edition includes: Motivating biomedical examples (closed-loop artificial pancreas) More examples of the importance of process control in satisfying safety Additional material on digital implementation of PID and IMC More content on model predictive control

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Fundamental Models 3. Dynamic Behavior 4. Empirical and Discrete-time Models 5. Introduction to Feedback Control 6. PID Controller Tuning 7. Frequency-Response Analysis 8. Internal Model Control 9. The IMC-Based PID Procedure 10. Cascade and Feed-Forward Control 11. PID Enhancements 12. Ratio, Selective, and Split-Range Control 13. Control-Loop Interaction 14. Multivariable Control 15. Plantwide Control 16. Model Predictive Control 17. Summary Module 1. Introduction to MATLAB Module 2. Introduction to SIMULINK Module 3. Ordinary Differential Equations Module 4. MATLAB LTI Models Module 5. Isothermal Chemical Reactor Module 6. First-Order + Time-Delay Processes Module 7. Biochemical Reactors Module 8. CSTR Module 9. Steam Drum Level Module 10. Surge Vessel Level Control Module 11. Batch Reactor Module 12. Biomedical Systems Module 13. Distillation Control Module 14. Case Study Problems Module 15. Flow Control Module 16. Digital Control DVD Material

About the Author :
B. Wayne Bequette is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Technology Manager for the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his research efforts are focused on the modeling and control of chemical process, biomedical, biopharma, and food manufacturing systems. He serves as the Board Secretary for the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) and as a Trustee of the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation. Dr. Bequette is a founding member of the editorial board of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology and serves on the editorial board of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AIChE, and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), and was inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers. He is the author of Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation, Second Edition, and Process Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation (both from Pearson), and has published 17 book chapters and more than 125 refereed journal articles. While completing a BS in chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas, Dr. Bequette worked at Arkansas Eastman (handling utility and waste treatment problems) and Cosden Oil and Chemical. After his undergraduate studies, he was a process engineer at American Petrofina, where he had the chance to serve as a process operator during two work stoppages. This sparked his interest in process automation and control, enticing him to the University of Texas at Austin to earn a PhD with a focus on multivariable control-system analysis and design. He spent a year as a visiting lecturer at the University of California at Davis before becoming a professor at Rensselaer in 1988. While at Rensselaer, he has had the good fortune to serve as the advisor for 23 PhD students, in addition to teaching chemical process dynamics and control to at least 1500 undergraduate students. His outside interests include bicycling and pole-vaulting.