Advanced Chemical Process Control - From Theory into Practice

Provides a well-balanced approach between theory and practical insights to provide engineers with the knowledge and tools to use and incorporate advanced process control more effectively into their processes.

List of contents

1. Mathematical and control theory background
2. Control configuration and controller tuning
3. Control structure selection and plantwide control
4. Limitations on achievable performance
5. Model-based predictive control
6. Some practical issues in controller implementation
7. Controller performance monitoring and diagnosis
8. Economic control benefit assessment

About the author

Morten Hovd is Professor of process control at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics of the Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU). After obtaining his doctorate in process control in 1992, he spent six years working with industry before returning to academia. Prof. Hovd has authored more than 150 scientific publications and is a member of both the IEEE Technical Committee on Process Control and the International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee on Mining, Minerals and Metals processing.

Product details

• Authors: Morten Hovd
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2023
• EAN: 9783527352234
• ISBN: 978-3-527-35223-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 20 mm x 254 mm
• Weight: 868 g
• Illustrations: 63 SW-Abb., 43 Farbabb., 3 Tabellen
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Chemie, Maschinenbau, Technische Chemie, Prozesssteuerung, chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, chemische Verfahrenstechnik, Technische u. Industrielle Chemie, Mess- u. Regeltechnik, Control Process & Measurements, Process Engineering