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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

302268 (v.2) ChE 411 Advanced Process Control

Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 2.5
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 2 x 1 Hours Monthly
Anti Requisite(s): 302214 (v.2) ChE 558 Advanced Process Control or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 307668 (v.2) Process Instrumentation and Control 328 or any previous version
Syllabus: Cascade, ratio and feedforward control. Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) enhancements: inferential control, override control/selective control, scheduling controller tuning and implementation issues. Other advanced control techniques - deadtime compensation (the Smith Projector) and adaptive control. Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Control Systems: process and control loop interactions, control loop, pairings - the residual gas analysis (RGA) method, decoupling control systems, and multivariable control techniques. Digital control systems: introduction, Z-transforms, development of discrete time models, dynamic response of discrete time systems, discrete time control algorithms, closed loop analysis and digital control system implementation.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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