Process control involves using automatic feedback control systems to maintain key process variables like temperature, pressure and flow rates at desired setpoints. This helps ensure processes operate safely and efficiently while meeting environmental and product quality standards. The course introduces concepts like process modeling and dynamics, feedback control systems, controller tuning and stability analysis to help students understand and design effective process control solutions. The overall goal is to teach students how to develop, analyze and apply automatic control strategies for chemical processes.
Process control involves using automatic feedback control systems to maintain key process variables like temperature, pressure and flow rates at desired setpoints. This helps ensure processes operate safely and efficiently while meeting environmental and product quality standards. The course introduces concepts like process modeling and dynamics, feedback control systems, controller tuning and stability analysis to help students understand and design effective process control solutions. The overall goal is to teach students how to develop, analyze and apply automatic control strategies for chemical processes.
Process control involves using automatic feedback control systems to maintain key process variables like temperature, pressure and flow rates at desired setpoints. This helps ensure processes operate safely and efficiently while meeting environmental and product quality standards. The course introduces concepts like process modeling and dynamics, feedback control systems, controller tuning and stability analysis to help students understand and design effective process control solutions. The overall goal is to teach students how to develop, analyze and apply automatic control strategies for chemical processes.
DYNAMICS & CONTROL A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO PROCESS DYNAMICS AND CONTROL
• Process control is the study and application of automatic control in the field
of chemical engineering. The primary objective of process control is to maintain a process at the desired operating conditions, safely and efficiently, while satisfying environmental and product quality requirements. • Process Control • Process control is the study and application of automatic control in the field of chemical engineering. The primary objective of process control is to maintain a process at the desired operating conditions, safely and efficiently, while satisfying environmental and product quality requirements. Proper application of process control can actually improve the safety and profitability of a process. Even though rapidly decreasing costs of digital devices and increasing computer speed have enabled high‐ performance measurement and control systems, it is not an easy task to achieve this because modern plants tend to be difficult to operate due to high complexity and highly integrated process units . PROCESS DYNAMICS
• A dynamical system can be defined as a combination
of components that act together to perform a certain objective. Conceptually, it is some isolated part of the universe that is of interest to us. For analysis and design purposes the full system of interest is usually decomposed into a number of subsystems that interact with each other. Such a subsystem (or even the full system) can be illustrated graphically by a block as shown in the figure COURSE DESCRIPTION This course combines the mathematical, physical and chemical concepts for application to process simulation and control. This is an introductory part for process control design and analysis. Whenever appropriate, MATLAB/other software is used to demonstrate the behavior of the control system. COURSE OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, the student must be
able to: 1. Develop dynamic (time-dependent) mathematical models of several chemical engineering processes 2. Develop transfer functions relating response to the forcing function 3. Know the response of the process to some forcing functions (step, impulse, linear and sinusoidal (etc.) 4. Know and analyze feedback control systems and its stability 5. Analyze the overall plant dynamics and characteristics COURSE OUTLINE 1. Introduction 1.1 What is a control system 1.2 Objective of Process Control 1.3 Design Aspects of Process Control 2. Review of Laplace Transforms 2.1 Transforms of elementary functions 2.2 Inverse Laplace Transforms 2.3 Solution of Linear Differential Equations by Laplace Transforms 3. Introduction to Modeling 3.1. Development of Mathematical Models 3.2. Modeling for Control Purposes 3.3. Linearization 4. First Order Open Loop Systems 4.1 What is a first order system. 4.2. Physical systems modeled as first order 4.3. Response of the first order systems to various input.(step, impulse, linear and sinusoidal etc.) 5. Higher Order Open-Loop Systems 5.1. What are second order systems 5.2. Physical systems modeled as second order 5.3. Response of the second order systems to various inputs 5.4. Higher order systems 6. Introduction to Feedback Control Systems 6.1 Concepts of feedback control 6.2. Control Systems 6.3. Controllers and final control element 6.4. Hardware for process control 7. Dynamic Behavior of Feedback Control Processes 7.1. Block Diagrams / Algebra 7.2. Effect of proportional control 7.3. Effect of Integral control 7.4. Effect of Derivative control 7.5. Effect of Combined (PID) control 8. Stability of Feedback Control Systems 8.1. Motion of Stability 8.2. Characteristic Equation 8.3. Routh-Hurwtz Criterion 8.4. Root-Locus Criteria 9. Controller Tuning 9.1. Ziegler-Nichols Method 9.2. Cohen – Coon Method INTRODUCTION
Why do we need process control?
- required to maintain safe operations, quality products and business viability. SAFETY
- the primary purpose of process
control system. - personnel safety, environmental safety and equipment safety. QUALITY
process control systems are significant
to maintaining product quality. PROFIT
- when safety and quality concerns are
met, process control objectives can be focused on profit. WHAT IS A PROCESS?
A process is an operation that uses
resources to transform inputs into outputs. It is the resource that provides the energy into the process for the transformation to occur. WHAT IS PROCESS CONTROL?
A process control is the act of
controlling a final control element to change the manipulated variable to maintain the process variable at a desired set point. The Manipulated Variable (MV) – is the measure of resource being fed into the process, for instance how much thermal energy.
A Final Control Element (FCE) – is
the device that changes the value of the manipulated variable. The Controller Output (CO) – is the signal from the controller to the final control element.
The Process Variable (PV) – is a
measure of the process output that changes in response to changes in the manipulated variable. The Set Point (SP) – is the value we wish to maintain the process variable at. WHAT ARE THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF PROCESS CONTROL?
The process itself, the sensor that
measures the process value, the final control element that changes the manipulated variable and the controller. THE PROCESS
Processes have a dynamic behavior
that is determined by physical properties which cannot be altered without making a physical change to the process. SENSORS
Measure the value of the process
output called Process Variable (PV) such as temperature, pressure, mass, flow and level. FINAL CONTROL ELEMENT
The physical device that receives
commands from the controller that manipulate the resource. THE CONTROLLER
Provides the signal to the final
element. DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR PROCESS CONTROL 1.) Understand the process. 2.) Identify the operating parameters. 3.) Identify the hazardous conditions. 4.) Identify the measurable. 5.) Identify the points of measurement. 6.) Select measurement methods. 7.) Select control method. 8.) Select control system. 9.) Set control limits. 10.) Define control logic. 11.) Create a redundancy system. 12.) Define a fail-safe. 13.) Set lead/lag criteria. 14.) Investigate effects of changes before/after. 15.) Integrate and test with other systems.