Computer Control in the Process Industries

Brian Roffel is Global Advisor, Advanced Computer Control at Polysar Limited. He holds a M.Eng in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in process control. He worked as chief senior research officer at the Twente University of Technology, and as a computer applications engineer at Esso Chemical Canada. During 1986-7 he was adjunct professor at the Universities of Western Ontario and Waterloo. He has written many publications on process dynamics and control. Patrick A. Chin is a Computer Control Specialist at Polysar Limited. He holds a M.Eng. in chemical engineering from McMaster University with a specialization in process control. Previously he worked as a computer applications engineer at Esso Chemical Canada.

• 1. Introduction  2. Distributed Computer Control System Networks  3. Computer System Software  4. Computer System Selection  5. Reliability and Security  6. Batch and Continuous Process Control  7. Introduction to Advanced Control 8. Dead Time Compensators  9. Inferential Control and Model Identification  10. Feed-Forward Control  11. Interaction and Decoupling  12. Constraint Control  13. Design, Adjustment and Application  14. Optimization  15. Self Tuning and Adaptive Controllers  16. State Observers  17. Kalman Filtering