June 2011

Candidate: M.DHINAKARAN

Annamalai University
Department of Instrumentation Engineering Part A: Ph.D. Methodology Examinations
PAPER I PROCESS CONTROL Reference Books:

1. Title: Process Modeling, Simulation, and Control for Chemical Engineers 2. Title: process control Author: Peter harriott, Publisher: TMH edition, 1972. 3. Title: computer process control Authors: C.L. Smith, Publisher: Intext Educational publishers, 1972. 4. Title: chemical process control Authors: G.Stephanopoules, Publisher: prentice Hall of India, 1990. 5. Title: process system analysis and control Authors: D.R.Coughanowr, Publication: second Edition, McGraw-hill, 1991. 6. Title: Digital control Engineering Authors: M.gopal, Publication: Wiley Eastern pUblishers, 1989.
UNIT I Author: William L.Luyben, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing company, London, 1990.

MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF PROCESSES: fundamental laws and equations levels, thermal, flow, gas and mixing process. Interacting and non-interacting process self regulation inverse response degrees of freedom linearization transfer function representation of process variable gain, variable time constant.
UNIT II

FEED BACK CONTROL OF PROCESSES: basic control actions characteristics of ONN/OFF,P,P+I,P+D,P+I+D control modes non- linear control anti reset windup bumpless transfer practical forms of P+I+D control modes. Selection of control modes for different processes control schemes for flow, level, pressure and temperature. Methods of controller tuning, Ziegler Nichols continuous cycling, damped oscillations, process reaction curve methods- Cohen & coon methods, time integrals criteria.
UNIT III

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS: feedback control of systems with large dead time, dead time compensation cascade control feed forward and adaptive and inferential control systems internal model control.
UNIT IV

DESIGN OF CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR MULTIVARIABLE PROCESS: design questions degrees of freedom and number of controller and manipulated variables generation of alternative loop configurations and extension to systems with interacting units. Interaction of control loops relative gain array and selection of loops design for non-interacting control loops. Design of PID controller for stable and unstable system. Design of multivariable PID controller model predictive controller introduction to robust control

UNIT V

REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF SAMPLED DATA CONTROL SYSTEMS: Z- transform and properties inverse Z-transform pulse transfer function data holds sampling frequency considerations analysis of closed loop sampled data control systems modified Z-transform and applications stability analysis multirate sampling. State variable representation and transition equation of digital time invariant systems controllability and observability of time.
UNIT VI

DIGITAL CONTROL ALGORITHMS: design of control algorithm using Z-transform deadbeat algorithm Dahlins method ringing kalmans approach discrete equivalent to an analog controller design for load changes.PID algorithms position and velocity forms tuning selection of sampling time algorithms in corporation antireset windup and bumpless transfer.
UNIT VII

SYSTEM MODELING AND IDENTIFICATION : mathematical modeling of a process first-order, second-order processes without with pure delay higher order systems process modeling from step test data pulse testing for process identification time domain identification using principle of least squares recursive computations.

Guide: Dr. S.Abraham Lincon, Professor, Dept of instrumentation Engineering, Annamalaiuniversity.