Highly practical and applied, this Third Edition of Smith and Corripio's Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control continues to present all the necessary theory for the successful practice of automatic process control. The authors discuss both introductory and advanced control strategies, and show how to apply those strategies in industrial examples drawn from their own professional practice.

Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control Third Edition features:

• Expanded coverage of the development of dynamic balances
• A new chapter on modeling and simulation
• More extensive discussion of distributive control systems
• New tuning exercises
• Guidelines for plant-wide control and two new design case studies
• New operating case studies
• Book Website containing simulations to practice the tuning of feedback controllers, cascade controllers, and feedforward controllers, and the MATLAB(r) files for simulation examples and problem

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Mathematical Tools for Control Systems Analysis
3. First-Order Dynamic Systems
4. Higher-Order Dynamic Systems
5. Basic Components of Control Systems
6. Design of Single Loop Feedback Control Systems
7. Tuning of Feedback Controllers
8. Root Locus and Frequency Response Techniques
9. Cascade Control
10. Ratio, Override and Selective Control
11. Feedforward Control
12. Multivariable Process Control
13. Dynamic Simulation of Control Systems

Appendices

• Instrumentation Symbols and Labels
• Design Case Studies
• Sensors, Transmitters, and Control Valves
• Tuning Case Studies
• Operating Case Studies

Index

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