Process Control (Chen, CL)

1. Essentials: Important Terms and Objectives of automatic Process Control
2. Mathematical tools
3. Basic Components of Control Systems (1): Sensors and Transmitters
4. Basic Components of Control Systems (2): Control Valves
5. Basic Components of Control Systems (3): Controllers
6. Basic Components of Control Systems (4): Process Dynamics
7. Analysis of Feedback Control Loops
8. Adjusting Controller Parameters
9. Frequency Response Techniques
10. Fundamentals and Benefits of Cascade Control
11. Some Control Strategies for Productivity and Safety: Selective, Ratio, and Override Control
12. Feed-forward Control: Principles and Applications
13. Control System and Dynamic Simulation: Simulink


Textbook: Smith, C.A. and A. Corripio, 2006, Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control, 3rd Ed., Wiley.


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Optimization of Chemical Processes

1. Introduction to Optimum Design, and
Optimum Design Problem Formulation
2. Optimum Design Concepts
3. Linear Programming Methods for Optimum Design
4. Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimum Design
5. Numerical Methods for Constrained Optimum Design
6. Optimum Design with MATLAB
7. Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization: Methods and Applications
Optimum Design with GAMS
8. Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Optimization: Methods and Applications
9. Classical and Optimization Approaches in Process Syntheses:
甲、 Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis
乙、 Mass Exchanger Network Synthesis
丙、 Water Network and Cooling Water Network Syntheses
10. Deterministic Global Optimization

Textbook: Arora, J.S., 2004, Introduction to Optimum Design, 2nd Ed., Elsevier.