Process Control Knowledge Base
All You Need To Know About Plant Control and Monitoring, and Then Some.
Control Station has partnered with the Control Guru to provide information on a wide range of process control and related topics. Included is practical know-how regarding PID loop tuning best practice and recommended techniques for improving control in applications including boilers, reactors, distillation columns, heat exchangers, and tank level control. Advanced control strategies like Cascade and Feed-Forward are also covered.
Topics Covered:
I. Modern Control is Based on Process Dynamic Behavior
1) Fundamental Principles of Process Control
2) Graphical Modeling of Process Dynamics: Heat Exchanger Case Study
3) Modeling Process Dynamics: Gravity Drained Tanks Case Study
4) Software Modeling of Process Dynamics: Jacketed Stirred Reactor Case Study
II. PID Controller Design and Tuning
5) Process Control Preliminarie
6) Proportional Control – The Simplest PID Controller
7) Caution: Pay Attention to Units and Scaling
8) Integral Action and PI Control
9) Derivative Action and PID Control
10) Signal Filters and the PID with Controller Output Filter Algorithm
III. Additional PID Design and Tuning Concepts
11) Exploring Deeper: Sample Time, Parameter Scheduling, Plant-Wide Control
12) Controller Tuning Using Closed-Loop (Automatic Mode) Data
IV. Control of Integrating Processes
VI. Process Applications in Control
19) Distillation Column Control