The first book to offer a practical, plantwide approach to designing effective controls for continuous chemical and petroleum processes Process control lore includes tales of multi-million dollar plants that never operated. Though individual controls were well designed, they simply did not work together. This book the first to offer a practical, plantwide approach to preventing such catastrophes. Written by three respected experts and verified in real-life implementations, this book helps you develop effective basic regulator control systems for plants on the drawing board, being revamped, or in full operation. Four realistic case studies (Tennessee-Eastman, isomerization, vinyl acetate, and HDA processes) contribute to making this guide a process control classic.

Plantwide Process Control

Engineering & Transportation

Luyben, William L.

Luyben, Michael L.

Tyreus, Bjorn D.

Engineering

McGraw=Hill

The purpose of this book is to convey to undergraduate students an understanding of those areas of process control that all chemical engineers need to know. The presentation is concise, readable and restricted to only essential elements. The methods presented have been successfully applied in industry to solve real problems. Analysis of closedloop dynamics in the time, Laplace, frequency and sample-data domains are covered. Designing simple regulatory control systems for multivariable processes is discussed. The practical aspects of process control are presented sizing control valves, tuning controllers, developing control structures and considering interaction between plant design and control. Practical simple identification methods are covered.

Process modeling, simulation, and control for chemical engineers (McGraw-Hill chemical engineering series)

The purpose of this book is to convey to undergraduate students an understanding of those areas of process control that all chemical engineers need to know. The presentation is concise, readable and restricted to only essential elements. The methods presented have been successfully applied in industry to solve real problems. Analysis of closedloop dynamics in the time, Laplace, frequency and sample-data domains are covered. Designing simple regulatory control systems for multivariable processes is discussed. The practical aspects of process control are presented sizing control valves, tuning controllers, developing control structures and considering interaction between plant design and control. Practical simple identification methods are covered.

Process Modeling, Simulation and Control for Chemical Engineers

Science & Math

Chemistry

Mcgraw-Hill College

A textbook for a one-semester course for juniors or seniors in chemical engineering, presenting the fundamental concepts and practical tools for process control needed by chemical engineers in any specialty. Minimizes the mathematics in favor of examples that illustrate principles and concepts. Uses FORTRAN for simulations and MATLAB for plotting and analysis. Unusual for introductions, discusses the interaction between steady-state design and control, and plant-wide control with an emphasis on selecting control structures for an entire multi-unit process. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Essentials of Process Control

Combining their extensive knowledge of process control, the team of William Luyben and Michael Luyben has developed a book that thoroughly covers the area of process control. With concise coverage that is easily readable and condensed to only essential elements, Essentials of Process Control presents the areas of process control that all chemical engineers need to know. The book's practical engineering orientation offers many real industrial control examples and problems. The authors present the practical aspects of process control such as sizing control valves, tuning controllers, and developing control structures. Readers will find helpful features of the book to include practical identification methods, which allow them to obtain information to tune controllers more quickly. In addition, the book discusses plantwide control and the interactions between steady-state design and dynamic controllability.

Essentials of Process Control/Solutions Manual (McGraw-Hill Chemical Engineering Series)

Technology

Great for a college level science class!

Chemical Process Analysis: Mass and Energy Balances (Prentice Hall International Series, the Physical and Chemical Engineering Sciences)

Wenzel, Leonard A.

PRENTICE/HALL

Chemical Reactor Design and Control uses process simulators like Matlab®, Aspen Plus, and Aspen Dynamics to study the design of chemical reactors and their dynamic control. There are numerous books that focus on steady-state reactor design. There are no books that consider practical control systems for real industrial reactors. This unique reference addresses the simultaneous design and control of chemical reactors. After a discussion of reactor basics, it: <ul>
<li>Covers three types of classical reactors: continuous stirred tank (CSTR), batch, and tubular plug flow</li> <li>Emphasizes temperature control and the critical impact of steady-state design on the dynamics and stability of reactors</li> <li>Covers chemical reactors and control problems in a plantwide environment</li> <li>Incorporates numerous tables and shows step-by-step calculations with equations</li> <li>Discusses how to use process simulators to address diverse issues and types of operations</li> </ul> This is a practical reference for chemical engineering professionals in the process industries, professionals who work with chemical reactors, and students in undergraduate and graduate reactor design, process control, and plant design courses.

Chemical Reactor Design and Control

Wiley-Interscience

After an overview of the fundamentals, limitations, and scope of reactive distillation, this book uses rigorous models for steady-state design and dynamic analysis of different types of reactive distillation columns and quantitatively compares the economics of reactive distillation columns with conventional multi-unit processes. It goes beyond traditional steady-state design that primarily considers the capital investment and energy costs when analyzing the control structure and the dynamic robustness of disturbances, and discusses how to maximize the economic and environmental benefits of reactive distillation technology.

Reactive Distillation Design and Control

Yu, Cheng-Ching

Wiley-AIChE

Hands-on guidance for the design, control, and operation of azeotropic distillation systems Following this book's step-by-step guidance, readers learn to master tested and proven methods to overcome a major problem in chemical processing: the distillation and separation of azeotropes. Practical in focus, the book fully details the design, control, and operation of azeotropic distillation systems, using rigorous steady-state and dynamic simulation tools. Design and Control of Distillation Systems for Separating Azeotropes is divided into five parts: <ul>
<li> Fundamentals and tools </li> <li> Separations without adding other components </li> <li> Separations using light entrainer (heterogeneous azeotropic distillation) </li> <li> Separations using heavy entrainer (extractive distillation) </li> <li> Other ways for separating azeotropes </li> </ul>
The distillation methods presented cover a variety of important industrial chemical systems, including the processing of biofuels. For most of these chemical systems, the authors explain how to achieve economically optimum steady-state designs. Moreover, readers learn how to implement practical control structures that provide effective load rejection to manage disturbances in throughput and feed composition. Trade-offs between steady-state energy savings and dynamic controllability are discussed, helping readers design and implement the distillation system that best meets their particular needs. In addition, economic and dynamic comparisons between alternative methods are presented, including an example of azeotropic distillation versus extractive distillation for the isopropanol/water system. With its focus on practical solutions, Design and Control of Distillation Systems for Separating Azeotropes is ideal for engineers facing a broad range of azeotropic separation problems. Moreover, this book is recommended as a supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate engineering courses in design, control, mass transfer, and bio-processing.

Design and Control of Distillation Systems for Separating Azeotropes

Chien, I-Lung

There are many comprehensive design books, but none of them provide a significant number of detailed economic design examples of typically complex industrial processes. Most of the current design books cover a wide variety of topics associated with process design. In addition to discussing flowsheet development and equipment design, these textbooks go into a lot of detail on engineering economics and other many peripheral subjects such as written and oral skills, ethics, "green" engineering and product design. This book presents general process design principles in a concise readable form that can be easily comprehended by students and engineers when developing effective flow sheet and control structures. 
Ten detailed case studies presented illustrate an in-depth and quantitative way the application of these general principles. Detailed economic steady-state designs are developed that satisfy economic criterion such as minimize total annual cost of both capital and energy or return on incremental capital investment. Complete detailed flow sheets and Aspen Plus files are provided. Then conventional PI control structures are be developed and tested for their ability to maintain product quality during disturbances. Complete Aspen Dynamics files are be provided of the dynamic simulations.

Principles and Case Studies of Simultaneous Design

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