MUHAMMAD RIDZUAN BIN ISMAIL

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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
MATLAB EXERCISE 5
5. To control the distillation column in (3) A multi-loop control system
consisting of two PI controllers is used. For the multi-loop control xD -R /
xB- S pairing is selected. The controller settings are given in Table 1.
Answer the following questions about the system.
Table 1: Controllers settings
Controller Pairing

Kc

xD - R

0.604

16.37

xB - S

-0.127

14.46

(i) Plot the responses of the process when a unit step set point change
is made in each loop with the other loop in manual mode.

(ii)

Plot the responses of the process when a unit step set-point

change is made with both controllers in automatic.