Syllabus
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Course Code: EI-PC-107 Course Name: Advance Process Control |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | PID controller tuning procedures: Close loop oscillation based tuning, Ziegler-Nichol close-loop method. Tuning rules for first order + dead time processes: step testing quarter decay ratio response, Ziegler-Nichol open loop method, Cohen-Coon parameters. Synthesis of feedback controllers: Development of the controller synthesis formula, specifications of close loop response, direct synthesis for minimum and non-minimum phase processes, controller modes and tuning parameters derivative mode for dead time process. Dead Time Compensation (Algorithms for Smith Predictor), & effect of process modeling error. | |
| 2 | Control Valve Design: Control valve flow characteristics, Valve & process characteristics, range availability of control valve, control valve sizing for gas, liquid, vapors and steam, Control valve cavitation and flashing, flow control cavitation index, vibration curve cavitation index, calculation of flash fraction, Control valve gain, sequencing of control valve . Valve application, selection, valve capacity testing. | |
| 3 | Additional control techniques: Cascade control,. Selective control & Split range control, Cascade control for various processes , dynamic characteristics of Cascade control system and its tuning. Override and Auctioneering control system for various processes, Feedforward control system, Feedforward control of various processes. Design of Feedforward controllers, Feedforward -Feedback control & their relative advantages & disadvantages. | |
| 4 | Ratio control system, Predictive control, Statistical control Adaptive and Inferential control system: Programmed Adaptive control, gain scheduling Adaptive control, Self tuning regulator (STR), MRAC, Multivariable Process Control. | |
