AL-Qadisiya University Subject: Process Control

College of Engineering Class: 4th year

Chemical Engineering Dept Time: 90 minutes
1st Term Exam 2016-2017 Max. Marks: 100
Examiner : Dr. Amer D. Zmat Date: /01 / 2017
Answer Three Questions only
Q1. a) The second order system shown in equation (1) is subjected to a unit step disturbance, determine
the values of the maximum overshoots that it exhibits for   0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and also determine when
these overshoots happen?
C( s ) 1
 2 ………………………………………………………………………….. (1)
R( s ) s  2s  1
b) Plot the first cycle of response for each value of  assuming that the value of the steady state
output is (1) and comment on the obtained results.

Q2. a) Simplify the block diagram shown in Figure (1). Obtain the transfer function relating C(s) and R(s).

b) Linearize the nonlinear equation z  x 2  4 xy  6 y 2 in the region

8  x  10
2 y4
 
Q3. Consider the liquid-level system shown in Figure (2). In the system, Q 1 and Q 2 are steady-state inflow
 
rates and H 1 and H 2 are steady-state heads. The quantities qi1, qi2, h1, h2, q1, and qo are considered small.
Obtain a state-space representation for the system when h1 and h2 are the outputs and qi1 and qi2 are the
inputs.

Figure (2)

Q4. a) find the Laplace transform of the function x (t ) which satisfy the following differential equation
and initial conditions:
d 3x d 2x dx
3
 4 2
 5  2x  2
dt dt dt
2
dx( 0) d x( 0)
x( 0)   0
dt dt 2
b) find the Laplace inverse of the following function;
𝑺+𝟑
F(s)=𝒔𝟑 +𝟕𝒔𝟐 +𝟏𝟎𝒔