302268 (v.2) ChE 411 Advanced Process Control

Area:

Department of Chemical Engineering

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

2.5

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your 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):

302264 (v.2) ChE 326 Process Control or any previous version

Syllabus:

Cascade, ratio and feedforward control. Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) enhancements - inferential control, over ride 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, multivariable control techniques. Digital control systems - introduction, Ztransforms, development of discrete time models, dynamic response of discrete time systems, discrete time control algorithms, closed loop analysis and digital control system implementation.

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Field of Education:

030301 Chemical Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2007	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2007	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External