"This book is highly recommended for a first course..."
--Chemical Engineering Progress
Publisher Web Site, March, 2004
Summary
Process Control covers the most essential aspects of process control suitable for a one-semester introductory
course. While classical techniques are discussed, Chau also covers state space modeling and control, a modern control
topic lacking in most introductory texts. MATLAB, a popular engineering software package, is employed as a powerful
yet approachable computational tool. Each chapter concludes with problem sets, to which hints or solutions are
provided. The support website provides excellent support in the way of MATLAB outputs of text examples and MATLAB
sessions, references, and supplementary notes.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Mathematical preliminaries
3. Dynamic response
4. State space representation
5. Analysis of PID control systems
6. Design and tuning of single-loop control systems
