Educational guide 2023_24 School of Chemical Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering (2010)

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
INTRODUCTION	Objectives and introduction to the course. Bibliography. Incentives to control a chemical process. Classification of process variables. Elements in the design of a control system.
MODELING and SIMULATION	Development of mathematical models for control purposes. Linearization of non-linear systems. Analytical, numerical and Laplace transform solutions.
ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES	Block diagrams. Transfer functions. Dynamic behavior of first and second order systems. Introduction to feedback control systems. Dynamic behavior of processes with feedback control. Process stability. Stability analysis for time series (Routh-Huirtwitz and Root locus Algorithms) and frequency analysis (Bode and Nyquist Algorithms).
INSTRUMENTATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES	Acquisition of process data and its treatment. Meters and types of meters used in process control. Signals used and signal transmitters. Final control elements.
DESIGN OF FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS	Identification of processes. Controller design and tuning. Empirical models and mathematical methods based on the response of the process. Control loop optimization. Alternatives to the basic control loop. Dead time compensation control and inverse response, selection and auctioneering control. Cascade control and inferential control. Split range control. Feed Forward control and ratio control.
CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL PLANTS	Integration of individual control loops in the plant's control system. Interaction and decoupling of control loops. Bristol method. Typical control configurations of different operations used in the chemical industry (heat exchangers, reactors, columns, etc.).

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