Acknowledgement Xiii About The Authors XV Foreword Xvii Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter 2 Setting The Foundation 5
Acknowledgement Xiii About The Authors XV Foreword Xvii Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter 2 Setting The Foundation 5
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
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Practice, 5 Overview 5 Opportunity Assessment 12 Examples 15 Application, 20 General Procedure 20 Application Detail 26 Rules of Thumb 74 Theory, 76 Process Time Constants and Gains 76 Process Time Delay 79 Ultimate Gain and Period 80 Peak and Integrated Error 82 Feedforward Control 84 Dead Time from Valve Dead Band 84 Nomenclature, 85 References, 86
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Chapter 3 APC PATHWAYS 89 Practice, 89 Overview 89 Opportunity Assessment 94 Examples 103 Application, 106 General Procedure 106 Application Detail 108 Rules of Thumb 115 References, 116 Chapter 4 EVALUATING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE 119 Practice, 119 Overview 119 Opportunity Assessment 121 Examples 125 Application, 129 General Procedure 129 Application Details 131 Rules of Thumb 143 Guided Tour 144 Theory, 147 Using Statistics for Control Performance Evaluation 150 Extending the Concept to the Multi-variable Environment 153 Addressing Advanced Control 154 Diagnostic Tools 156 References, 160 Chapter 5 ABNORMAL SITUATION MANAGEMENT 163 Practice, 163 Overview 163 Opportunity Assessment 165 Examples 166 Application, 168 General Procedure 168 Application Details 169 Rules of Thumb 171 Guided Tour 173 Theory, 177 Introduction to Expert Systems 177 Rules 178 Inference Engine 180 Facts 181 References, 182
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Chapter 6 AUTOMATED TUNING 183 Practice, 183 Overview 183 Opportunity Assessment 185 Examples 187 Application, 197 General Procedure 197 Application Detail 200 Rules of Thumb 202 Guided Tour 206 Theory, 208 Introduction to Auto Tuners 208 Basics of Relay-Oscillation Tuning 210 Model Based Tuning 218 Robustness Based Tuning 221 Adaptive Control 225 References, 237 Chapter 7 FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL 239 Practice, 239 Overview 239 Opportunity Assessment 240 Examples 240 Application, 241 General Procedure 241 Rules of Thumb 242 Guided Tour 242 Theory, 244 Introduction to Fuzzy Logic Control 244 Building a Fuzzy Logic Controller 247 Fuzzy Logic PID Controller 251 Fuzzy Logic Control Nonlinear PI Relationship 254 FPID and PID Relations 257 Automation of Fuzzy Logic Controller Commissioning 258 References, 259 Chapter 8 PROPERTIES ESTIMATION 261 Practice, 261 Overview 261 Opportunity Assessment 263 Example Dynamic Linear Estimator 265 Examples - Neural Networks 269 Application, 274 General Procedure 274 Application Detail 279
Rules of Thumb 289 Guided Tour 289 Theory, 294 Dynamic Linear Estimator 294 Neural Networks 296 References, 305
Chapter 9 MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL 307
Practice, 307 Overview 307 Opportunity Assessment 310 Examples 316 Application, 337 General Procedure 337 Application Detail 339 Rules of Thumb 353 Guided Tour 355 Theory, 362 The Basics of Process Modeling 364 Identifying the Process Model 367 Unconstrained Model Predictive Control 369 Integrating Constraints Handling, Optimization and Model Predictive Control 373 References, 381
Chapter 10 VIRTUAL PLANT 383
Practice, 383 Overview 383 Opportunity Assessment 386 Examples 387 Application, 389 General Procedure 389 Online Adaptation 393 Application Detail 395 Rules of Thumb 399 Guided Tour 400 Theory, 403 References, 408
Appendix A ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS Appendix B BATCH-TO-CONTINUOUS TRANSITION Appendix C DEFINITIONS 419 415 409
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