Courses Handbook 2008

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): 307668 (v.1) ChE 328 Process Instrumentation and Control 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.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 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

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