Process Control: A Practical Approach

by Myke King

This expanded new edition is specifically designed to meet the needs of the process industry, and  closes the gap between theory and practice.

624 pages, Hardcover

First published December 13, 2010

Reviews

[Dermot O'Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my long experience as a chemical engineer, this is by far the best text on process control I've come across. In the field, I am always confused by the word 'process.' Most text books take process to mean any system that has an input and an output - an electronic circuit, for example. The teaching then is concerned with complex mathematical models of the system to let you predict what will happen the output a millisecond after you change the input. These are fundamentally about mathematics, suited perhaps to electrical or electronic engineers. The "process" in the title of Myke King's book refers to the process industries - large chemical or energy plants where process and chemical engineers work and where process control is about controlling flowrate, temperature, pressure and level. The text does of course consider process dynamics - essential when designing a control strategy - but does not present the mathematics as central to an understanding of the subject. As well as control system design, there are also chapters on inferential control, multi-variable control, and the control of specific operations - combustion, compressors and distillation. As a practical approach to control in the process industries, it is superb.