Distillation control, optimization, and tuning : : fundamentals and strategies / / Lanny Robbins.

"With a focus on the fundamentals and strategies of distillation columns, this book covers the process variables for continuous distillation columns, as well as four basic control strategies and the typical cases in which they are used. The author defines the inlet and outlet streams and proces...

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Place / Publishing House:Boca Raton, Florida : : CRC Press,, [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (275 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and overview
  • 2. Distillation control variables
  • 3. Separation power
  • 4. Distillate/feed material balance split
  • 5. Distillation control strategies
  • 6. Constraints
  • 7. Optimizing product quality performance
  • 8. PID feedback control loop
  • 9. Closed-loop tuning of controllers
  • 10. Open-loop testing of process response.