ChE 562‑Process Control Laboratory

Summer Session

1998‑2000 Catalog Data:  ChE 562: Process Control Laboratory.  Credit 1.

                                                A laboratory course demonstrating computer simulation and the characteristics of sensing and control devices and their interactions when incorporated into process control systems.

Prerequisites by Topic:

·      Laplace transforms.

·      Block Diagrams and Transfer Functions.

·      Controller Tuning and Selection.

·      Final control elements.

·      Frequency response

·      Stability.

Textbook:                          Laboratory Manual

Course Objectives:   Upon successful completion of the course, students will

·      Know how open-loop systems behave.

·      Understand how automatic control achieves regulatory and servo control of process systems.

Topics Covered:

·      Characteristics and Response of First Order and Overdamped Second Order Systems (Liquid‑level Process).

·      Characteristics and Response of Underdamped Second Order Systems.

·      Controller Tuning and Dead Time Compensation.

·      Feedforward Control.

·      Computer Control with Dual Process Simulator

·      Computer Control of liquid level system.

·      Interaction Analysis for variable pairing.                                      

Class Schedule:               One laboratory session per week of 4 hours in duration.

Contribution of course meeting the professional component.

·      Fifth year required course.

·      Reinforces theoretical concepts learned in the lecture course on process control.