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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL

ENGINEERING

PROCESS CONTROL 3B(PRCCHB3)


Controller Tuning

05 October 2023
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Performance criterion used for the selection and tunning of the controller

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Since this function involves an error it means that at some point it has to 7
reach zero error at steady state
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Intergrate the fuction of the error

Intergrate the absolute value of the fuction of the err

Intergrate the absolute value of the fuction of the error

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What happens to the error as we change the value
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of Kc
Cohen and Coon observed that the response of most processing units to an input
change had a sigmoidal shape which can be approximated by the response of a
first-order system with deadtime

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PI

UNIT 7 Slide 9

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Example 3

The transfer functions of the process, measuring device and final control
element of a control system are respectively given as:

Determine the controller settings using the Ziegler-Nichols tuning


method given the crossover frequency and amplitude ratio below

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Solution

Using the table below;

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