KMM 520E - Plantwide Process Control

Course Objectives

1. To train students to control the basic units encountered in chemical engineering.
2. To provide students with a general design procedure that generates an effective plantwide base-level regulatory control structure for complex chemical processes.
3. To train students to solve multi-loop control problems.
4. To train students to control multi-unit chemical processes using simulation methods.

Course Description

Introduction to plantwide control. Plantwide control fundamentals: integrated processes, reaction/separation interaction, effects of recycle streams. Basic concepts of plantwide control. Degrees of freedom: design degrees of freedom, control degrees of freedom. Plantwide control design procedure. Control of individual units: reactors, distillation columns, heat exchangers, compressors. Design of controllers. Controller tuning. Interaction of control loops. Case studies.