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Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering

Volume 3B: Process Control

  • 4th Edition - August 23, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Sohrab Rohani
  • Language: English

Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering: Volume 3B: Process Control, Fourth Edition, covers reactor design, flow modeling, and gas-liquid and gas-solid reactions and react… Read more

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Description

Coulson and Richardson’s Chemical Engineering: Volume 3B: Process Control, Fourth Edition, covers reactor design, flow modeling, and gas-liquid and gas-solid reactions and reactors.

Key features

  • Converted from textbooks into fully revised reference material
  • Content ranges from foundational through to technical
  • Added emerging applications, numerical methods and computational tools

Readership

Academic and Professional Chemical and Process Engineers

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Process Dynamics and Control Systems

2. Nonlinear Dynamic Mathematical Modeling of Chemical/Biological/Green Processes

3. Laplace Transforms, Linear State Space Models and Transfer Functions

4. Empirical Models and Process Identification

5. Control System Instrumentation and Controllers

6. Closed-Loop Systems, Stability and Design of PID controllers

7. Feedforward Control and Enhanced Single-Loop Controllers

8. Frequency Response and Stability in the Frequency Domain

9. Design of Discrete Controllers in the z-domain

10. Stochastic Processes

11. Design of Deterministic Controllers in the State-Space

12. Nonlinear Geometric Control

13. Control and Optimization of Batch Processes

14. Model Predictive Controllers

15. Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 25, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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Sohrab Rohani

Dr. Rohani is the past Chair of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at the University of Western Ontario. He is a full professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, where he also served as the past chair. His research focuses on solid-state chemistry and pharmaceutical control, the application of artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical crystallization, and the synthesis and applications of metal-organic frameworks. He has authored over 400 refereed journal publications.
Affiliations and expertise
Past Chair, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, University of Western Ontario, Canada

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