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WEB-Based Resources for Process Control |
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The
Internet is loaded with many good (and some not-so-good) resources for the
undergraduate engineering student.
This page provides a few good sites that are consistent with the
technical level of typical undergraduate courses and are complementary to the
material on this site. All sources are free. |
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Process
Control technology and methods |
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University of Michigan
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Book prepared by students as part of their undergraduate course.
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John Hendengren Brigham Young Univerity |
This site has numerous screen casts with lessons in Process Control. Also, a link is given for a textbook (PDF) by D. Cooper. | ||
José Luis Guzmán, Karl J. Åström, Sebastián Dormido, Tore Hägglund, Yves Piguet |
"Interactive Simulators"
The "PID Basics" simulator is an easy-to-use simulator that gives nice visual display and key calculated metrics of performance. Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. |
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Applied
Process Control |
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Spiraxsarco |
“Steam Engineering Tutorials” Excellent presentation of instrumentation
and control methods that are useful for many applications beyond steam
generation |
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Mr. Jacques Smuts Opticontrols USA |
“Reflections of a Process Control Practitioner” Many interesting and useful
case studies. These will be valuable
to the reader who has already learned the basics of control technology and needs
to hear about realistic challenges and solutions. |
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Instrumentation |
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Mr. Tony Kuphalt Bellingham Technical college Washington, USA |
“Lessons in Industrial Instrumentation” Encyclopedic coverage of
instrumentation, including over 3000 pages; download is 50 MB. Easy to use by finding topic in the Table
of Contents and using hyperlinks. |
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Mr. Jim Russell Mr. Ian Verhappen |
“IceWeb” A very comprehensive
portal. Not the easiest to use, but it
provides a wide coverage of important topics. |
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