What is Process control: Definition and 13 Discussions

An industrial process control in continuous production processes is a discipline that uses industrial control systems to achieve a production level of consistency, economy and safety which could not be achieved purely by human manual control. It is implemented widely in industries such as automotive, mining, dredging, oil refining, pulp and paper manufacturing, chemical processing and power generating plants.There is a wide range of size, type and complexity, but it enables a small number of operators to manage complex processes to a high degree of consistency. The development of large industrial process control systems was instrumental in enabling the design of large high volume and complex processes, which could not be otherwise economically or safely operated.The applications can range from controlling the temperature and level of a single process vessel, to a complete chemical processing plant with several thousand control loops.

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    Engineering Sinusoidal response to sinusoidal input (Process control)

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  3. PaxFinnica96

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  4. Jason-Li

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  5. Will26040

    Engineering Tuning Rules for Lag Dominated FOPDT (first-order plus deadtime) model

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  6. PaxFinnica96

    Tank Change in Flow Process Modeling

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  7. thoraxepi

    I Transfer Function relating momentum and force

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  9. MexChemE

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    Doing a Cascade Control lab and I'm stuck on a question. Its asking me how to implement critically damped into a control system. I can't find it any where in my books or the net. thanks.
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