Product Description

Design Control Systems Using Modern Technologies and Techniques

Process control has increased in importance in the process industries, driven by global competition, rapidly changing economic conditions, more stringent environmental and safety regulations, and the need for more flexible yet more complex processes to manufacture high value-added products.

This long-awaited second edition of Dale Seborg, Thomas Edgar, and Duncan Mellichamp's Process Dynamic and Control reflects recent changes and advances in process control theory and technology. The authors have added new topics, and enhanced the presentation with a large number of new exercises and examples, many of which utilize MATLAB and Simulink.

New and expanded topics includes:

• Mathematical modeling of chemical processes
• Developing dynamic models from process data
• Control system design
• Process safety and process control
• Enhanced single-loop control
• Digital control
• Multiloop and multivariable control
• Real-time optimization
• Model predictive control
• Process monitoring
• Batch process control
• Plantwide control
• Applications to semiconductor manufacturing and bioprocessing
• Control hardware and software

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48009 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 736 pages

Review
Solutions Manual available. -- The publisher, John Wiley & Sons

From the Publisher
This chemical engineering text provides a balanced treatment of the central issues in process control: process modelling, process dynamics, control systems, and process instrumentation. There is also full coverage of classical control system design methods, advanced control strategies, and digital control techniques. Includes numerous examples and exercises.

From the Back Cover
Design Control Systems Using Modern Technologies and Techniques

Process control has increased in importance in the process industries, driven by global competition, rapidly changing economic conditions, more stringent environmental and safety regulations, and the need for more flexible yet more complex processes to manufacture high value-added products.

This long-awaited second edition of Dale Seborg, Thomas Edgar, and Duncan Mellichamp’s PROCESS DYNAMIC AND CONTROL reflects recent changes and advances in process control theory and technology. The authors have added new topics, and enhanced the presentation with a large number of new exercises and examples, many of which utilize MATLAB and Simulink.

New and expanded topics includes:

• Mathematical modeling of chemical processes
• Developing dynamic models from process data
• Control system design
• Process safety and process control
• Enhanced single-loop control
• Digital control
• Multiloop and multivariable control
• Real-time optimization
• Model predictive control
• Process monitoring
• Batch process control
• Plantwide control
• Applications to semiconductor manufacturing and bioprocessing
• Control hardware and software

Customer Reviews

This is the ONLY chemical engineering book that I like
Four years of chemical engineering education and finally, a book worth remembering. Seborg leaves nothing out. From the simplest principles to the weirdest homework problems, the book does a great job of TEACHING, not just INFORMING. As a reference, it might not be too great, but for pure teaching effect, this is the absolute best choice.

Ideal text book for field process engineers.
This book shows how to think and approach and find out the way to solve your problems in the process control field. It contains a lot of examples of actual process properties,dynamics and simulation models, and control problems. And there is a introduction to the advanced control systems.

Good explanations, but frequent typos.
Overall, this book helped me make sense of a fairly difficult course. Unfortunately, I would often find myself spinning my wheels trying to solve example problems and derive equations that were full of typos. I know all textbooks have errors, but this one seemed worse than most. I would highly recommend downloading the errata list before reading anything. The book provided pretty clear explanations of most topics, but some things were out of order and seemed a little confusing. Rudimentary topics that had been used throughout the entire text and were necessary to understand parts of many chapters were explained late in the book and were often difficult to find. Many of the example problems also did not show solutions in enough depth.