Process Automatic Control

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Course objectives

Enable students to understand the importance of automated systems, to comprehend how danger can be potentially poorly designed control systems. Enable students to understand that the process automatic control is very difficult task and for its realization it is necessary to connect numerous different subsystems and the resulting creation is very complex system. But, for its proper work it was necessary to harmonize different subsystems characteristics introducing many compromises while trying to connect all of them.

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Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After completing this course, students will be able to describe different automatic and controlled processes realizations. Students will be able to describe the problems of implementation such different realizations in real life situations. They will be able to explain with arguments why some ides of control theory can be or cannot be implemented different real life tasks.

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

System theory and control theory. Mathematical modeling. Examples of mathematical models of physical systems. Laplace transformation, transfer function, transient part of time domain analysis, frequency domain analysis. Analysis of first and second order processes. Digital computer as process controller. Behavior of feedback loop controlled systems. First and second order processes in control loop. Control loop objectives. Stability analysis. Routh criterion. Nyquist criterion. Control loop synthesis. Nonlinear systems and nonlinear control loop analysis. Design and characteristics of controllers. Regulation valve. Self-regulating control loop systems. Examples of modern control theory: expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic. Examples of process control ( thermal systems, chemical reactor systems, drying systems, distillation).

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