Process Dynamics and Control (Hardcover)

by Dale E. Seborg (Author), Thomas F. Edgar (Author), Duncan A. Mellichamp (Author) "The foundation of process control is process understanding..." (more)
Key Phrases: control loop interactions, multiloop control system, plantwide control system, New York, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (more...)

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Design Control Systems Using Modern Technologies and Techniques

Process control has increased in importance in the process industries, driven by global competition, rapidly changing economic conditions, more stringent environmental and safety regulations, and the need for more flexible yet more complex processes to manufacture high value-added products.

This long-awaited second edition of Dale Seborg, Thomas Edgar, and Duncan Mellichamp's Process Dynamic and Control reflects recent changes and advances in process control theory and technology. The authors have added new topics, and enhanced the presentation with a large number of new exercises and examples, many of which utilize MATLAB and Simulink.

New and expanded topics includes:

• Mathematical modeling of chemical processes
• Developing dynamic models from process data
• Control system design
• Process safety and process control
• Enhanced single-loop control
• Digital control
• Multiloop and multivariable control
• Real-time optimization
• Model predictive control
• Process monitoring
• Batch process control
• Plantwide control
• Applications to semiconductor manufacturing and bioprocessing
• Control hardware and software

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 736 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (October 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471000779
• ISBN-13: 978-0471000778
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #45,552 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the ONLY chemical engineering book that I like, March 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Process Dynamics and Control (Wiley Series in Chemical Engineering) (Hardcover)

Four years of chemical engineering education and finally, a book worth remembering. Seborg leaves nothing out. From the simplest principles to the weirdest homework problems, the book does a great job of TEACHING, not just INFORMING. As a reference, it might not be too great, but for pure teaching effect, this is the absolute best choice.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ideal text book for field process engineers., December 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Process Dynamics and Control (Wiley Series in Chemical Engineering) (Hardcover)

This book shows how to think and approach and find out the way to solve your problems in the process control field. It contains a lot of examples of actual process properties,dynamics and simulation models, and control problems. And there is a introduction to the advanced control systems.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good explanations, but frequent typos. , April 10, 2007

By	Dimitri Sekelj - See all my reviews

Overall, this book helped me make sense of a fairly difficult course. Unfortunately, I would often find myself spinning my wheels trying to solve example problems and derive equations that were full of typos. I know all textbooks have errors, but this one seemed worse than most. I would highly recommend downloading the errata list before reading anything. The book provided pretty clear explanations of most topics, but some things were out of order and seemed a little confusing. Rudimentary topics that had been used throughout the entire text and were necessary to understand parts of many chapters were explained late in the book and were often difficult to find. Many of the example problems also did not show solutions in enough depth.