INTRODUCTION

Objectives of Process Control

 The main objective in operating a chemical plant is to
improve profit while assuring products meet required
specifications and plant operation satisfies
environmental and operational constraints.
 A sub objective that directly affects profit is to improve
control performance of key economic variables in the
plant, particularly the production rate & quality.
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Distillation Column : Controlled and Manipulated
Variables
Recommended Books

1.Smith, C. A, Corripio, A. B, Principles

and Practice of Automatic Process
Control, 3rd Edition, John Wiley,2006.

2.Coughanown, D.R. and S.E.LeBlanc,

Process system Analysis & Control, 3rd
Edition McGraw Hill, 2009.