Process Control Modules: A Software Laboratory for Control Design

by Francis J. Doyle, E.P. Gatzke

A supplement to ANY texts for one-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Process Control.Designed to provide students with a realistic process simulation and control design environment--without pulling in a full-scale industrial distributed control system (DCS)--this text features a set of MATLAB/Simulink scripts that can be used as the basis of a computer laboratory in process control. The structured instructions and exercises--which are sufficient to cover approximately twelve 2-hour computer lab sessions--center around two key chemical engineering unit a binary distillation column and a heated tube furnace. The complexity of the underlying simulation models ensures that students will be exposed to all the complexities of actual process data, including nonlinearity, high order dynamics, and noisy measurements.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000