Chemical and Biological Process Dynamics and Control
George Stephanopoulos

This book is an introductory text to the theory and practice of dynamic chemical and biological process engineering. It addresses the educational needs of a first undergraduate course in process dynamics and control, and to complement advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on the same subject. It is also useful for practicing engineers, who want to deepen their understanding in the foundational aspects of process dynamics and control.

This book is in many ways, a major departure from the classical approach of teaching process dynamics and control: (1) It unifies the treatment of chemical and biological process dynamics and control, from the biomolecular networks to macroscopic phenomena. (2) All aspects of modeling, analysis, and design of dynamic processes and control systems are in the time domain, which is their natural setting. (3) It Articulates clearly the foundational principles on which the model-based design of control systems is based, from the PID to the MPC, through cascade, adaptive, inferential, override, auctioneering, and other control elements. (4) The design of control systems proceeds in three phases and addresses questions of increasing complexity: (a) Structural analysis, for the generation of control configurations (units, integrated plants, biomolecular networks). (b) Steady state analysis for the selection of the operating points and the design of steady state controllers. (c) Dynamic analysis, for the design of model-based controllers.

The book contains 31 chapters, with more than 450 figures, diagrams, and tables; and over 200 Examples, case illustrations, and Practice Exercises, many of which are supported by MATLAB® or/and Simulink® files. The book’s website provides extensive supplementary support material: (a) nine(9) process modules, which are used throughout the book for Practice Exercises; (b) MATLAB® functions and Simulink® facilities, used in the book; (c) many exercises to practice the book’s material; (d) answers to select exercises; and (e) more than 150 MatLab® and Simulink® files, which provide the computational machinery to illustrate the numerical results of methods presented in the book.

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Publisher: Tetractyls Editions