Engineering Bookshelf

Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control (Topics in Chemical Engineering)
by Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, W. Harmon Ray, Ray Ogunnaike

Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195091191

This text offers a modern view of process control in the context of today's technology. It provides the standard material in a coherent presentation and uses a notation that is more consistent with the research literature in process control. Topics that are unique include a unified approach to model representations, process model formation and process identification, multivariable control, statistical quality control, and model-based control.

This book is designed to be used as an introductory text for undergraduate courses in process dynamics and control. In addition to chemical engineering courses, the text would also be suitable for such courses taught in mechanical, nuclear, industrial, and metallurgical engineering departments.

Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes
by Richard M. Felder, Ronald W. Rousseau

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; ; Book & CD
ISBN: 047168757X

This best-selling book prepares readers to formulate and solve material and energy balances in chemical process systems. It provides a realistic, informative, and positive introduction to the practice of chemical engineering.

Includes a CD-ROM which contains interactive instructional tutorials, an encyclopedia of chemical process equipment, a physical property database, a powerful but user friendly algebraic and differential equation-solving program, and other tools.

Process Dynamics and Control
by Dale E. Seborg, Duncan A. Mellichamp, Thomas F. Edgar, Francis J. Doyle III

Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470128674

This third edition provides chemical engineers with process control techniques that are used in practice while offering detailed mathematical analysis. Numerous examples and simulations are used to illustrate key theoretical concepts. New exercises are integrated throughout several chapters to reinforce concepts.

Up-to-date information is also included on real-time optimization and model predictive control to highlight the significant impact these techniques have on industrial practice. And chemical engineers will find two new chapters on biosystems control to gain the latest perspective in the field.

Process Control: Modeling, Design and Simulation
by B. Wayne Bequette

Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0133536408

This is the first complete introduction to process control that fully integrates software tools enabling professionals and students to master critical techniques hands on, through computer simulations based on the popular MATLAB environment. Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation teaches the field's most important techniques, behaviors, and control problems through practical examples, supplemented by extensive exercises with detailed derivations, relevant software files, and additional techniques available on a companion Web site.

Process Control: Designing Processes and Control Systems for Dynamic Performance
by Thomas Marlin

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
ISBN: 0070393621

This is a revision of a well received new book for what is a required course in Chemical Engineering. The author uniquely emphasizes practices in industry so that students learn what aspects of plant design & control are critical.

Approaches are presented for measurement selection, process/modification, control structure design and algorithm tuning to achieve good performance over a range of operating conditions. The sequence of topics (modeling, single-loop control and tuning, enhancements, multiloop control, and design) builds the students' ability to analyze increasingly complex systems, culminating in multiloop control design.

Process Control: A Practical Approach
by Myke King

Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470975873

Process Control: A Practical Approach is a ground-breaking guide that provides everything needed to design and maintain process control applications.

The book follows the hierarchy from basic control, through advanced regulatory control, up to and including multivariable control. It addresses many process-specific applications including those on fired heaters, compressors and distillation columns. Written with the practicing control engineer in mind.

Chemical Process Control: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
by George Stephanopoulos

Publisher: PTR Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0131286293

A thorough overview of all aspects of chemical process control -- process modeling, dynamic analyses of processing systems, a large variety of control schemes, synthesis of multivariable control configurations for single units and complete chemical plants, analysis and design of digital computer control systems.