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Design Control Systems Using Modern Technologies and Techniques

Process control has increased in importance in the process industries, driven
by global competition, rapidly changing economic conditions, more stringent
environmental and safety regulations, and the need for more flexible yet more
complex processes to manufacture high value-added products.

This long-awaited second edition of Dale Seborg, Thomas Edgar, and Duncan
Mellichamp’s Process Dynamic and Control reflects recent changes and advances
in process control theory and technology. The authors have added new topics,
and enhanced the presentation with a large number of new exercises and
examples, many of which utilize MATLAB and Simulink.

New and expanded topics includes:

Mathematical modeling of chemical processes

Developing dynamic models from process data

Control system design

Process safety and process control

Enhanced single-loop control

Digital control

Multiloop and multivariable control

Real-time optimization

Model predictive control

Process monitoring

Batch process control

Plantwide control

Applications to semiconductor manufacturing and bioprocessing

Control hardware and software

About the Author

Dale E. Seborg is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. Dr. Seborg has published over 200 articles and co-edited three books on process control and related topics. Dr. Seborg has served on the Editorial Advisor Boards for control engineering journals and book series, and has been a co-organizer of several major conferences. He is an active industrial consultant who serves as an expert witness in legal proceedings.

Thomas F. Edgar holds the Abell Chair in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has published over 300 papers in the field of process control, optimization, and mathematical modeling of processes such as separations, combustion, and microelectronics processing. Dr. Edgar was president of AIChE in 1997 and President of the American Automatic Control Council in 1989–91.

Duncan A. Mellichamp is professor Emeritus and founding member of the faculty of the chemical engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of an early book on data acquisition and control computing and has published more than one hundred papers on process modeling, large scale/plantwide systems analysis, and computer control. He earned a B.S. degree from Georgia Tech and a Ph.D. from Purdue University with intermediate studies at the Technische Universität Stuttgart (Germany). He presently serves on the governing boards of several nonprofit organizations.