Practical process control for engineers and technicians

• Main Author: Altmann, Wolfgang
• Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
• Other Authors: Macdonald, Dave 1942-
• Format: Electronic Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Burlington, MA Newnes 2005
• Series: Practical professional books from Elsevier
• Subjects: Process control; Μηχανική παραγωγής

This book is aimed at engineers and technicians who need to have a clear, practical understanding of the essentials of process control, loop tuning and how to optimize the operation of their particular plant or process. The reader would typically be involved in the design, implementation and upgradi...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals of process control and new techniques, Tuning of PID control loops, Correcting stability problems, Understanding cascade loops and feed forward control, Correcting for long dead times in a loop, Cascade Control, Feedforward Control, Combined Feedback & Feedforward Control, Long Dead-time in Closed Loop Control, Alarm Handling & Process Security, Range of Control & Instrumentation in Industrial Process Control, Introduction to Statistical Process Control, Practical Applications, Expert System & Model Based Self Tuning Controllers