The first book to offer a practical, plantwide approach to designing effective controls for continuous chemical and petroleum processesProcess control lore includes tales of multi-million dollar plants that never operated. Though individual controls were well designed, they simply did not work together. This book the first to offer a practical, plantwide approach to preventing such catastrophes. Written by three respected experts and verified in real-life implementations, this book helps you develop effective basic regulator control systems for plants on the drawing board, being revamped, or in full operation. Four realistic case studies (Tennessee-Eastman, isomerization, vinyl acetate, and HDA processes) contribute to making this guide a process control classic.
William L. Luyben, Ph.D., is a professor of chemical engineering at Lehigh University and the author or coauthor of six textbooks, including Essential Process Control and Process Modeling, and over 150 technical papers. Bj”rn D. Tyr‚us, Ph.D., is a research associate at Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. Michael L. Luyben, Ph.D., is a research engineer at Du Pont's Central Research and Development Department. They are both authors of a number of technical papers on the interaction of process design and process control. Michael and William Luyben are coauthors of Essentials of Process Control, published by McGraw-Hill in 1997.