Process Control Interactive Learning Modules
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The exercises in the following sections cover topics existing in most undergraduate process control courses.  The references to equations, solved examples and so forth are to material contained in Marlin, T., Process Control: Designing Processes and Control Systems for Dynamic  Performance, McGraw Hill, New York, 2000. (ISBN 0-07-039362-1) 

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Part I    Introduction

Chapter 1    Introduction to Process Control
Chapter 2    Control Objectives and Benefits

Part II    Process Dynamics

Chapter 3    Mathematical Modelling Principles
Chapter 4    Modelling and Analysis for Process Control
Chapter 5    Dynamic Behavior of Typical Process Systems
Chapter 6    Empirical Model Identification

Part III   Feedback Control

Chapter 7    The Feedback Loop
Chapter 8    The PID Algorithm
Chapter 9    PID Controller Tuning for Dynamic Performance
Chapter 10    Stability Analysis for Process Control
Chapter 11    Digital Implementation of Process Control
Chapter 12    Practical Application of Feedback Control
Chapter 13    Performance of Feedback Control Systems

Part IV   Enhancements to Single Loop PID Control

Chapter 14    Cascade Control
Chapter 15    The Feedforward Control
Chapter 16    Adapting Single-Loop Control Systems for Nonlinear Processes
Chapter 17    Inferential Control
Chapter 18    Level and Inventory Control
Chapter 19    Single-Variable Model Predictive Control

 

Part V   Multivariable Control

Chapter 20   Multiloop Control: Effects of Interaction
Chapter 21   Multiloop Control: Performance Analysis
Chapter 22   Variable-Structure and Constraint Control 
Chapter 23   Centralized Multivariable Control

 

Part VI   Process Control Design

Chapter 24   Process Control Design: Definition and Decisions
Chapter 25   Process Design: Managing the Design Procedure
Chapter 26   Continual Improvement

 
More Chapters are being developed