| Overview | MSc info | MSc program | MSc topics | ET | TN | WBMT |
| WB4432-05: | Process Dynamics and Control |
| ECTS: | 3 |
| Responsible Instructor: | dr.ir. R. Toth |
| Contact Hours / Week x/x/x/x: | 0/0/0/4 |
| Education Period: | 4 |
| Start Education: | 4 |
| Exam Period: | 4, 5 |
| Course Language: | English |
| Course Contents: | Introduction Overview of the process and energy industry Design versus operation, batch and continuous operation Objectives of process control Modeling System boundary, conservation laws and constitutive equations Degrees of freedom (DOF’s) Examples: stirred tank (reactor), furnace, distillation column Differential and algebraic equations (DAE’s) Simulation and analysis of DAE’s Common causes for nonlinearities and linear model development Model representations: State space and IO forms Laplace transformation and analysis (poles, zeros, stability) Common building blocks of transfer functions Model approximation and reduction Control Instrumentation: sensors, actuators, control systems Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID’s) Feedback and feedforward control approaches Control in the Laplace domain - PID control: tuning and practical aspects (scaling, tamed D-action, etc.) - Internal Model Control (IMC) and direct synthesis - Extensions: ratio, feedforward, cascade, override, split-range Interaction: pairing (RGA) and decoupling Plantwide control: production rate control, quality control and recycles Batch control and Sequential Function Charts (SFC’s) Optimization: Model Predictive Control (MPC), Real Time Optimization (RTO) and Scheduling and Planning (S&P) |
| Study Goals: | The student is capable to apply basic and advanced theoretical concepts of the Systems & Control theory which are relevant for dynamic modeling, simulation and control of chemical and energy conversion processes. More specifically, the student must be able to: 1. Have a general understanding of process operation. 2. Develop models of a process and analyze its dynamic properties. 3. Design a control system for a process which is able to achieve a specified performance. |
| Education Method: | Lectures |
| Computer Use: | During the lectures and the assignment Matlab will be used. |
| Literature and Study Materials: | Course material: • Slides • Standard text book see below (not obligatory) References from literature: • Process Dynamics and Control, Dale E. Seborg, Thomas F. Edgar, Duncan A. Mellichamp. |
| Assessment: | Assignment & oral examination |
| Remarks: | The final mark will be based on the assignment and the oral examination. |
