Practical Process Control: Methods and Best Practices for Automatic PID Control

Practical Process Control Proven Methods and Best Practices for Automatic PID Control I. Modern Control is Based on Process Dynamic Behavior (by Doug Cooper) 1) Fundamental Principles of Process Control 2) Graphical Modeling of Process Dynamics: Heat Exchanger Case Study 3) Modeling Process Dynamics: Gravity Drained Tanks Case Study 4) Software Modeling of Process Dynamics: Jacketed Stirred Reactor Case Study II. PID Controller Design and Tuning (by Doug Cooper) 5) Process Control Preliminarie 6) Proportional Control – The Simplest PID Controller 7) Caution: Pay Attention to Units and Scaling 8) Integral Action and PI Control 9) Derivative Action and PID Control 10) Signal Filters and the PID with Controller Output Filter Algorithm III. Additional PID Design and Tuning Concepts (by Doug Cooper) 11) Exploring Deeper: Sample Time, Parameter Scheduling, Plant-Wide Control 12) Controller Tuning Using Closed-Loop (Automatic Mode) Data 13) Evaluating Controller Performance ... Read full article.