Chemical and Bio-Process Control: United States Edition - Hardcover
Key features:
- Industrially relevant approach to chemical and bio-process control
- Fully revised edition with substantial enhancements to the theoretical coverage of the subject
- Increased number and variety of examples
- Extensively revised homework problems with degree-of-diffi culty rating added
- Expanded and enhanced chapter on model predictive control
- Self-assessment questions and problems at the end of most sections with answers listed in the appendix
- Bio-process control coverage:
- Background and history of bio-processing and bio-process control added to the introductory chapter
- Discussion and analysis of the primary bio-sensors used in bio-tech industries added to the chapter on control loop hardware
- Signifi cant proportion of examples and homework problems in the text deal with bio-processes
- Section on troubleshooting bio-process control systems included
- Bio-related process models added to the modeling chapter
- Supplemental material:
- Visual basic simulator of process models developed in text
- Solutions manual
- Set of PowerPoint lecture slides
- Collection of process control exams
All supplemental material can be found at www.che.ttu.edu/pcoc/software
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About the Author:
James B. Riggs has been a professor of chemical engineering at Texas Tech University since 1983. He received his BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded the Texas Tech Process Control and Optimization Consortium (www.che.ttu.edu/pcoc/) in 1992 and has more than 80 technical publications on process modeling, control and optimization. He is the author of An Introduction to Numerical Methods for Chemical Engineers (1988, 1994) and co-author of Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, 7th Edition (2004). In addition, he has a total of over five years industrial experience.
M. Nazmul Karim is a professor and the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University. He received the BSc. (Honors) degree in Chemical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka. He earned his MSc. degree in Control Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K. Before joining Texas Tech University in 2004, he taught at Colorado State University for more than twenty years. He has published widely in the area of bio-process control. Dr. Karim was the Director of the Advanced Industrial Bio-Processing Short Course, which he offered at Colorado State University for over twenty years. More than 130 companies have participated in this course. Dr. Karim has co-authored seventy refereed journal papers and published hundreds of conference papers, and has given numerous invited and keynote talks in professional meetings. He has co-edited a book, Modeling and Control of Biotechnical Processes 1992, with Professor Gregory Stepanopoulos (MIT). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
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- PublisherPrentice Hall
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0137137982
- ISBN 13 9780137137985
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages608
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