Goals

To provide students with the knowledge of:

• process dynamics
• process models
• process control
• control system analysis and design

Knowledge, Abilities, and Skills Students Should Gain From This Course

• Ability to develop mathematical and transfer function models for dynamic processes.
• Ability to analyze process stability and dynamic responses.
• Ability to empirically determine process dynamics for step response data.
• Familiarity with different types of PID feedback controllers.
• Ability to read block diagrams and process and instrumentation diagrams.
• Ability to design feed forward control, cascade control and Smith predictors.
• Knowledge of multivariable process interactions.

Prerequisites

Knowledge, Abilities, and Skills Students Should Have Entering This Course:

• ChE 322 (basic understanding of thermodynamics).
• ChE 354 (ability to establish models for dynamic process operations).
• ChE 253M (Knowledge and lab experience with sensors, dynamics and data analysis).
• Perform macroscopic energy and mass balances for dynamic operations.
• Solve analytically and numerically algebraic and ordinary differential equations and perform basic matrix operations (ChE 348).
• Knowledge of complex variables and complex functions.
• Some experience of process sensors and measurements.

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