Ebook: Plantwide control : recent developments and applications

The use of control systems is necessary for safe and optimal operation of industrial processes in the presence of inevitable disturbances and uncertainties. Plant-wide control (PWC) involves the systems and strategies required to control an entire chemical plant consisting of many interacting unit operations. Over the past 30 years, many tools and methodologies have been developed to accommodate increasingly larger and more complex plants. This book provides a state-of-the-art of techniques for the design and evaluation of PWC systems. Various applications taken from chemical, petrochemical, biofuels and mineral processing industries are used to illustrate the use of these approaches. This book contains 20 chapters organized in the following sections: Overview and Industrial Perspective ; Tools and heuristics ; Methodologies ; Applications ; Emerging topics. With contributions from the leading researchers and industrial practitioners on PWC design, this book is key reading for researchers, postgraduate students, and process control engineers interested in PWC.  Read more... Front Matter -- Overview and Perspectives. Introduction / Gade Pandu Rangaiah, Vinay Kariwala -- Industrial Perspective on Plantwide Control / James J Downs -- Tools and Heuristics. Control Degrees of Freedom Analysis for Plantwide Control of Industrial Processes / N V S N Murthy Konda, Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- Selection of Controlled Variables using Self-optimizing Control Method / Lia Maisarah Umar, Wuhua Hu, Yi Cao, Vinay Kariwala -- Input-Output Pairing Selection for Design of Decentralized Controller / Bijan Moaveni, Vinay Kariwala -- Heuristics for Plantwide Control / William L Luyben -- Throughput Manipulator Selection for Economic Plantwide Control / Rahul Jagtap, Nitin Kaistha -- Influence of Process Variability Propagation in Plantwide Control / James J Downs, Michelle H Caveness -- Methodologies. A Review of Plantwide Control Methodologies and Applications / Suraj Vasudevan, Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- Integrated Framework of Simulation and Heuristics for Plantwide Control System Design / Suraj Vasudevan, N V S N Murthy Konda, Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- Economic Plantwide Control / Sigurd Skogestad -- Performance Assessment of Plantwide Control Systems / Suraj Vasudevan, Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- Application Studies. Design and Control of a Cooled Ammonia Reactor / William L Luyben -- Design and Plantwide Control of a Biodiesel Plant / Chi Zhang, Gade Pandu, Vinay Kariwala -- Plantwide Control of a Reactive Distillation Process / Hsiao-Ping Huang, I-Lung Chien, Hao-Yeh Lee -- Control System Design of a Crystallizer Train for Para-Xylene Recovery / Hiroya Seki, Souichi Amano, Genichi Emoto -- Modeling and Control of Industrial Off-gas Systems / Helen Shang, John A Scott, Antonio Carlos Brandao de Araujo -- Emerging Topics. Plantwide Control via a Network of Autonomous Controllers / Jie Bao, Shichao Xu -- Coordinated, Distributed Plantwide Control / Babacar Seck, J Fraser Forbes -- Determination of Plantwide Control Loop Configuration and Eco-efficiency / Tajammal Munir, Wei Yu, Brent R Young -- Appendix: Potential Problems with Rigorous Simulators and Possible Solutions -- Epilogue -- Index. pt. 1. Overview and perspectives -- pt. 2. Tools and heuristics -- pt. 3. Methodologies -- pt. 4. Application studies -- pt. 5. Emerging topics