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The document is a tutorial for a Process Control course in the Department of Chemical Engineering, detailing various questions related to control systems, their benefits, and components. It covers topics such as open and closed-loop systems, sensor functions, and practical applications in process control. Additionally, it includes specific problems related to a soft drink manufacturing process, requiring calculations for power, time constant, and transfer functions.

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PRC Tutorial

The document is a tutorial for a Process Control course in the Department of Chemical Engineering, detailing various questions related to control systems, their benefits, and components. It covers topics such as open and closed-loop systems, sensor functions, and practical applications in process control. Additionally, it includes specific problems related to a soft drink manufacturing process, requiring calculations for power, time constant, and transfer functions.

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Department of Chemical Engineering

Due date: 08 June 2020


Process Control Tutorial

1. Process plants require control systems to:


a. Reduce the effect of disturbances acting on the process
b. Ensure smooth transitions between different operating conditions
c. Ensure process variables remain in their desired values
d. All of the above
2. The benefits of process control are
a. Safety
b. Product quality
c. Reduce reaction time
d. Both a and b
3. The variable used to maintain the controlled variable at its set point (desired value) is
called
a. Disturbance variable
b. Process variable
c. Manipulated variable
d. Measured variable
4. Which system is also known as automatic control system?
a. Open loop control system
b. Close loop control system

5. Advantages of open loop system is/are?


a. Simple and economical
b. Reliable
c. Accurate
d. All of the above
6. In a closed-loop control system, the reference (set point) of the process variable is
maintained by
a. No control over the output (controlled variable)
b. Optimized feedback control over the output (controlled variable)
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
7. A sensor is a device in which
a. A measurand is converted into a signal in a different form
Department of Chemical Engineering

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Process Control Tutorial

b. The input to the sensor is the measurand and the output is the signal produced by
the sensor
c. The output of the sensor may be force, displacement, voltage, electrical resistance
or other physical quantity
d. All of the above
8. The system that initiates corrective action only after the output gets affected is called
a. Feed forward
b. Feed back
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
9. In a open-loop control system, the desired value of the process variable is maintained by
a. Feedback control over the output (controlled variable)
b. No control over the output (controlled variable)
c. Direct control over the output (controlled variable)
d. None of the above
10. For a feedback control of an exothermic reactor temperature by manipulating the
cooling water flowrate in a jacket, we need the following sensors
a. Flowrate sensor
b. Temperature sensor
c. Both flowrate and temperature sensor
d. None of the above
11. The variable selection for concentration is
a. Total moles in vapor
b. Total mass in liquid
c. Energy balance
d. None of the above
12. During the manufacture of a soft drink, dilute syrup is pumped into a mixing vessel
where colour and flavour are added before the product is carbonated and bottled, as
shown in Figure. The syrup enters the vessel at a constant flow-rate of 1 kg/s, at a
constant temperature of 50 C. An electric element maintains the temperature in the
vessel at a constant 70 C. The mixing vessel is well lagged, such that heat losses are
negligible. The volume of the liquid in the vessel is maintained at a constant 1.2 m3.
Take the density of the liquid as 1 000 m3, and the specific heat capacity as 4 kJ/kg.K.
The quantities of colouring and flavouring that are added are negligible in volume
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Process Control Tutorial

compared to the volume of the liquid, such that they do not affect the dynamics of the
system. Given that the initial steady state temperature in the tank was maintained at
70 C, determine the power of the element in kW.

13. What is the time constant for the system described above? (give the answer in
seconds)?
14. What is the value of the steady-state gain from the transfer function that relates T to
Tin:
a. 1
b. 1.2
c. 0.3
d. 4.8
15. What is the steady state value in the transfer function that relates T to Q? Give answer
in ks/Kj)

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