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All You Need To Know About Plant Control, Monitoring, and Then Some.

Control Station has partnered with the Control Guru to provide information on a wide range of process control and related topics. Included is practical know-how regarding PID loop tuning best practice and recommended techniques for improving control in applications including boilers, reactors, distillation columns, heat exchangers, and tank level control. Advanced control strategies like Cascade and Feed-Forward are also covered.

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Topics Covered:

I. Modern Control is Based on Process Dynamic Behavior

1) Fundamental Principles of Process Control
2) Graphical Modeling of Process Dynamics: Heat Exchanger Case Study
3) Modeling Process Dynamics: Gravity Drained Tanks Case Study
4) Software Modeling of Process Dynamics: Jacketed Stirred Reactor Case Study

II. PID Controller Design and Tuning

5) Process Control Preliminarie
6) Proportional Control – The Simplest PID Controller
7) Caution: Pay Attention to Units and Scaling
8) Integral Action and PI Control
9) Derivative Action and PID Control
10) Signal Filters and the PID with Controller Output Filter Algorithm

III. Additional PID Design and Tuning Concepts

11) Exploring Deeper: Sample Time, Parameter Scheduling, Plant-Wide Control
12) Controller Tuning Using Closed-Loop (Automatic Mode) Data
13) Evaluating Controller Performance

IV. Control of Integrating Processes

14) Integrating (Non-Self Regulating) Processes

V. Advanced Classical Control Architectures

15) Cascade Control For Improved Disturbance Rejection
16) Feed Forward with Feedback Trim For Improved Disturbance Rejection
17) Ratio, Override and Cross-Limiting Control
18) Cascade, Feed Forward, and Three-Element Control

VI. Process Applications in Control

19) Distillation Column Control
20) Discrete Time Modeling of Dynamic Systems
21) Fuzzy Logic and Process Control