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Reflections of a Lone Traveller
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 121

Reflections of a Lone Traveller

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-29
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

He is not one among the ‘rich and famous’. It is the narration of a very ordinary man, about an eventful journey in his life. He has enjoyed success in life, failures due to his mistakes and negligence of others as well as disappointment due to the treachery of some business associates. He has never shied away from facing his weaknesses or from projecting his strength. His only prayer is that, if some of the readers find that his perseverance in life encourages and inspires them to explore the vast opportunities spread, provides insight to be cautious at the treacherous sweet-talk of some opportunists who want to take advantage, he considers that his mission in writing this reflection, has accomplished its purpose.

Process Control Performance Assessment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Process Control Performance Assessment

This book is a practical guide to the application of control benchmarking to real, complex, industrial processes. The variety of industrial case studies gives the benchmarking ideas presented a robust real-world attitude. The book deals with control engineering principles and economic and management aspects of benchmarking. It shows the reader how to avoid common problems in benchmarking and details the benefits of effective benchmarking.

Process Control
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

Process Control

Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs. It explains the essential technologies that are in use in current industrial practice or which may be wanting for the future. The book focuses on practical considerations, not only on those that make a control solution work, but also on those that prevent it from failing, especially for complex control loops and plant-wide control solutions. After discussing the indispensable role of control in modern process industries, the authors concentrate on the skills required for process analysis, control design, and troubleshooting. One of the first books to provide a systematic appr...

Detection and Diagnosis of Stiction in Control Loops
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Detection and Diagnosis of Stiction in Control Loops

In the process industries, stiction is the most common performance-limiting valve problem and over the last decade numerous different techniques for overcoming it have been proposed. This book represents a comprehensive presentation of these methods, including their principles, assumptions, strengths and drawbacks. Guidelines and working procedures are provided for the implementation of each method and MATLAB®-based software can be downloaded from www.ualberta.ca/~bhuang/stiction-book enabling readers to apply the methods to their own data. Methods for the limitation of stiction effects are proposed within the general context of: oscillation detection in control loops, stiction detection, diagnosis and stiction quantification and diagnosis of multiple faults. The state-of-the-art algorithms presented in this book are demonstrated and compared in industrial case studies of diverse origin – chemicals, building, mining, pulp and paper, mineral and metal processing.

Fractional-order Systems and Controls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Fractional-order Systems and Controls

Fractional-order Systems and Controls details the use of fractional calculus in the description and modeling of systems, and in a range of control design and practical applications. It is largely self-contained, covering the fundamentals of fractional calculus together with some analytical and numerical techniques and providing MATLAB® codes for the simulation of fractional-order control (FOC) systems. Many different FOC schemes are presented for control and dynamic systems problems. Practical material relating to a wide variety of applications is also provided. All the control schemes and applications are presented in the monograph with either system simulation results or real experimental results, or both. Fractional-order Systems and Controls provides readers with a basic understanding of FOC concepts and methods, so they can extend their use of FOC in other industrial system applications, thereby expanding their range of disciplines by exploiting this versatile new set of control techniques.

Identification of Continuous-time Models from Sampled Data
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

Identification of Continuous-time Models from Sampled Data

This is the first book dedicated to direct continuous-time model identification for 15 years. It cuts down on time spent hunting through journals by providing an overview of much recent research in an increasingly busy field. The CONTSID toolbox discussed in the final chapter gives an overview of developments and practical examples in which MATLAB® can be used for direct time-domain identification of continuous-time systems. This is a valuable reference for a broad audience.

Bounded Dynamic Stochastic Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Bounded Dynamic Stochastic Systems

Over the past decades, although stochastic system control has been studied intensively within the field of control engineering, all the modelling and control strategies developed so far have concentrated on the performance of one or two output properties of the system. such as minimum variance control and mean value control. The general assumption used in the formulation of modelling and control strategies is that the distribution of the random signals involved is Gaussian. In this book, a set of new approaches for the control of the output probability density function of stochastic dynamic systems (those subjected to any bounded random inputs), has been developed. In this context, the purpo...

Process Dynamics and Control
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Process Dynamics and Control

The new 4th edition of Seborg’s Process Dynamics Control provides full topical coverage for process control courses in the chemical engineering curriculum, emphasizing how process control and its related fields of process modeling and optimization are essential to the development of high-value products. A principal objective of this new edition is to describe modern techniques for control processes, with an emphasis on complex systems necessary to the development, design, and operation of modern processing plants. Control process instructors can cover the basic material while also having the flexibility to include advanced topics.

Robust Control of Diesel Ship Propulsion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Robust Control of Diesel Ship Propulsion

Based on the author’s research and practical projects, he presents a broad view of the needs and problems of the shipping industry in this area. The book covers several models and control types, developing an integrated nonlinear state-space model of the marine propulsion system.

Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 2006
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1576

Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 2006

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-03-01
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

The safe and reliable operation of technical systems is of great significance for the protection of human life and health, the environment, and of the vested economic value. The correct functioning of those systems has a profound impact also on production cost and product quality. The early detection of faults is critical in avoiding performance degradation and damage to the machinery or human life. Accurate diagnosis then helps to make the right decisions on emergency actions and repairs. Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) has developed into a major area of research, at the intersection of systems and control engineering, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics and statistics, and suc...