Process Control

 

 

FACULTY

ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

LEVEL OF STUDY

UNDERGRADUATE

SEMESTER OF STUDY

7o

COURSE TITLE

Process Control
COURSEWORK BREAKDOWNTEACHING WEEKLY HOURSECTS Credits
Lectures2
Laboratory0
Projects2

TOTAL

5
COURSE TYPE Compulsory
PREREQUISITES
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION/EXAMSGreek
COURSE DELIVERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTSYes

MODULE WEB PAGE (URL)

https://eclass.uowm.gr/


2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students have the following knowledge/abilities/skills:
• Understand the concept of control of a physicochemical process and the dependence on the dynamic behavior of the process.
• Understand the necessity of applying control on a process and its relation/importance to operational safety, productivity/efficiency and ensuring environmental constraints during process operation.
• Ability to select and design an appropriate regulatory system.
• Ability to mathematically describe the aforementioned type of problems and solve them using computational tools (e.g., MATLAB, SIMULINK, etc.).
• Development of critical thinking and problem solving in process control related problems.


General Skills

• Practical application of knowledge
• Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Decision making
• Autonomous work
• Teamwork


3. COURSE CONTENTS

1. Regulators, sensor and actuator elements for process control
2. Closed-loop transfer function
3. Transient behaviour of processes in the closed feedback loop
4. Process stability
5. Root locus
6. Application of root locus in feedback control
7. Frequency response analysis
8. Application of frequency response analysis in feedback control
9. Methods for feedback control system design and parameter tuning
10. Multivariable control - multiple input multiple output systems
11. Cascade control
12. Feedforward control


4. TEACHING METHODS – ASSESSMENT

MODE OF DELIVERY
In person
USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
• Presentation in Power Point
• Online classroom
• eclass

TEACHING METHODS
Method descriptionSemester Workload
Lectures60
Assignments20
Exams20
Course Total
ASSESSMENT METHODS Exams in Greek language

Problem solving and short answer questions.

Final exams (80%) and assignments (20%)


5. RESOURCES

Suggested bibliography :

• Process Control (in Greek), 1st Edition, Νταουτίδης Π., Μαστρογεωργόπουλος Σπ., Παπαδοπούλου Σημ., εκδόσεις Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & YΙΟΙ Α.Ε., 2012, ISBN: 978-960-418-390-6
• Modern Control Systems, 13th Edition, Dorf R.D., Bishop R.H., εκδόσεις Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε., 2010, ISBN: 978-960-418-704-1 (also available in Greek)
• Control Systems, 1st Edition, Stefani R.T., Shahian B., Savant C.J., Hostetter G.H., εκδόσεις ΕΠΙΚΕΝΤΡΟ, 2012, ISBN: 978-960-458-334-8 (also available in Greek)
• Process Dynamics and Control, Seborg D.E., Edgar T.F., Mellichamp D.A., Doyle III F.J., John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2011. ISBN: 978‐0‐470‐64610‐6
• Process Dynamics, Modeling and Control, Ogunnaike B.A., Ray W.H., Oxford University Press, N.Y., 1994
• Process Control, T.E. Marlin, McGraw‐Hill, Singapore, 2000

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