Course detail

Process Design and Control for Chemical Engineers

FSI-9RRPAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course focuses on an important area of process control related to systems and methods for collecting process data in real time, processes and configurations in the projection regulatory, control and monitoring systems. It shows the close ties between the behavior of process units, especially in the dynamic and characteristics of measuring, regulating and controlling systems. PhD student will learn the basic procedures for creating mathematical models describing the dynamic behavior of key process equipment and related configurations regulation and control systems. Listeners at the use of knowledge of the field of hydrodynamic, heat and mass transfer and chemical reactions. Especially when solving practical problems. In this course we use the project management systems implemented process units and production lines.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

1. Basic knowledge of the planting of process technology units by measuring and regulating elements.
2. Ability to communicate with specialists in the field of "measurement and control".

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the technological functions of each equipment or unit operations in pflowsheet of solved process plant. The ability of active work with the software Chemcad, especially with regard to the application of measurement and control circuits.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course is concluded by exam. Handover of written work is necessary 2 weeks before exam. The exam is in oral form, evaluation of written work
represents 50% of the final evaluation.

Course curriculum

1. Feedback control
2. Individual process variables
3. Equipment control
4. Control Loop Hardware and Troubleshooting
5. PID Tuning
5. Advanced PID Control
6. Model Predictive Control

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

1. The process engineer ability of professional communication with specialist to
"measurement and control".
2. The ability to design of basic measurement and control circuits for the solved process plant.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Teaching takes place mainly in the individual form according to character of solved process technological units.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Luyben W.L: Process Modeling, Simulation, and Control for Chemical Engineers, McGraw-Hill,1990.
Walas S.M.: Chemical Process Equipment, Selection and Design, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1990.

Recommended reading

Green, D., W., Perry, R., H., CHEMICAL ENGINEERS´ HANDBOOK, 8 th editon, Mc Graw-Hill International Editions, Chemical Engineering Series,New York, 2007
Patrick D.R., Fardo S.W.: Industrial Process Control Systems, The Fairmont Press, Inc., 2009.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Zdeněk Jegla, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Syllabus of the lectures:

- Introduction. The framework and the link between control systems and process equipment.
- Principles feedback, feedforward and digital control. Dynamic
  process behavior and matemat.modely.Fyzikální and empirical models of equipment.
- Simulation methods for the analysis of behavior using linear and nonlinear
  dynamic models. Feedback control with PID controllers.
- Transmission and block diagrams of systems in the open and closed loop.
- Regulation of the feedforward and combinations Feedback-Feedforward Control.
- Organize and properties controllers connected in cascade. Systems
  simultaneous control of multiple process variables. Control Systems - Model
  Predictive Control. Process and Instrumentation Diagrams - P & ID.
- Sensors and systems for measuring process variables, eg. Temperature, pressure, etc.
- Regulatory action elements such as. Control valves with pneumatic and
  electric. drive. Hierarchical structure Distributed Control Systems.
- Programmable sequence control - Programmable Logic Controllers.

Note:
The above description includes the basic content and structure of the course. The subject is always modified with respect to the doctoral dissertation.