Course objectives

• Improve the participants' understanding of process control systems.

Course outline

• Importance of process control.
• Setting control objectives and identifying control variables.
• Selecting manipulating variables.
• Components of process control loops.
• How control loops operate?
• Modeling for process control.
•  Modeling aspects for control purposes.
•  Development of mathematical models.
• Open-loop dynamics of chemical processes.
• Dynamics and examples of first order systems.
•  Dynamics and examples of second order systems.
•  Higher order systems.
• Feedback control systems.
•  Elements of feedback control systems.
•  Construction of block diagrams.
• Proportional control action.
•  Integral control action.
• Derivative control action.
• Composite control action.
• Frequency response techniques.
• Design of control systems.
•  Level, flow and temperature controllers.
•  Control system for heat exchanger.
• Control system for distillation column.
•  Control system for mixing process.
• Reactor control system.
• Advanced control systems.
•  Computer control systems.
•  Inferential control systems.
• Multivariable control systems.
•  Adaptive control systems.

Who Can Benefit?

•  Chemist, Chemical, Petroleum Engineers