Plantwide Process Control - Hardcover

Luyben, William

9780070067790: Plantwide Process Control

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070067791 ISBN 13: 9780070067790

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1998

The first book to offer a practical, plantwide approach to designing effective controls for continuous chemical and petroleum processes

Process control lore includes tales of multi-million dollar plants that never operated. Though individual controls were well designed, they simply did not work together. This book the first to offer a practical, plantwide approach to preventing such catastrophes. Written by three respected experts and verified in real-life implementations, this book helps you develop effective basic regulator control systems for plants on the drawing board, being revamped, or in full operation. Four realistic case studies (Tennessee-Eastman, isomerization, vinyl acetate, and HDA processes) contribute to making this guide a process control classic.

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From the Back Cover:

Design an effective control structure for the entire plant. Process
control lore includes tales of multi-million dollar plants that never
operated. Though individual controls were well designed, they simply
did not work together. This book the first to offer a practical,
plantwide approach to designing effective controls for continuous
chemical and petroleum processes can prevent such catastrophes. With
four realistic case studies...Tennessee-Eastman, isomerization, vinyl
acetate, and HDA processes (the first time a workable control
structure for HDA has ever been published)...Plantwide Process Control
gives chemical engineers, and students, the tools they need to design
effective control schemes. Written in accessible, nonmathematical
language, this book will be a process control classic.

About the Author:

William L. Luyben, Ph.D., is a professor of chemical engineering at Lehigh University and the author or coauthor of six textbooks, including Essential Process Control and Process Modeling, and over 150 technical papers. Bj”rn D. Tyr‚us, Ph.D., is a research associate at Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. Michael L. Luyben, Ph.D., is a research engineer at Du Pont's Central Research and Development Department. They are both authors of a number of technical papers on the interaction of process design and process control. Michael and William Luyben are coauthors of Essentials of Process Control, published by McGraw-Hill in 1997.

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