Use this schedule to plan your reading and studying. The topic sequence is good, but the actual dates will change based on our progress.
| August 24 | Administrivia | ||
| August 26 | Introduction: Process Control | Text pp. 3-4 | |
| Feedback Control Loops | Text pp. 5-9, 12-13, 23-30 | ||
| August 24 | Feedback Control Loops | Text pp. 5-9, 12-13, 23-30 | |
| August 28 | Feedback Control Loops | Text pp. 5-9, 12-13, 23-30 | |
| August 31 | Control Loop Hardware | Text pp. 35-38 | |
| Sensors & Transmitters | Text pp. 65-67, 77-78 | ||
| Control Valves | Text pp. 43-64 | ||
| September 2 | Control Valves | Text pp. 43-64 | |
| Control Valves | Text pp. 43-64 | ||
| September 9 | Control Valves | Text pp. 43-64 | |
| Modeling for Process Control | Text pp. 97-98 | ||
| September 11 | Basic Modeling Equations | Text pp. 98-99 | |
| September 14 | Basic Modeling Equations | Text pp. 98-99 | |
| Actuator & Sensor Dynamics | Text pp. 100-04, 121-22 | ||
| September 16 | Actuator & Sensor Dynamics | Text pp. 100-04, 121-22 | |
| Modeling Example | |||
| September 18 | Modeling Example | ||
| September 21 | Guest Speaker - Kyle Dorgan: Real World Process Control | ||
| September 23 | Modeling Test | ||
| September 25 | Laplace Transforms | Text pp. 137-51 | |
| September 28 | Instrumentation Quiz | ||
| September 30 | Laplace Transforms | Text pp. 137-51 | |
| October 2 | Deviation Variables | Text pp. 151-53 | |
| Linearization | Text pp. 166-72 | ||
| October 5 | Transfer Functions | ||
| Dead Time | Text pp. 192-93 | ||
| October 7 | Response of First Order Systems | Text pp. 182-185 | |
| October 9 | Response of First Order Systems | Text pp. 182-185 | |
| Poles & Zeros | Text pp. 156-62 | ||
| October 12 | Dynamics of 2nd Order Systems | Text pp. 185-86 | |
| October 14 | Dynamics of 2nd Order Systems | Text pp. 185-86 | |
| Poles & Zeros | Text pp. 156-62 | ||
| October 16 | NO CLASS -- NO STUDENTS SHOWED UP!! | ||
| October 26 | Review Tests; Review | ||
| October 28 | Stability | ||
| October 30 | Inverse Response | Text pp. 196-97 | |
| November 2 | Controller Algorithms | Text pp. 217-20, 230-38 | |
| November 4 | Controller Algorithms | Text pp. 217-20, 230-38 | |
| November 6 | Controller Algorithms | Text pp. 217-20, 230-38 | |
| November 9 | Controller Transfer Functions | ||
| November 12 | Dynamics of 2nd Order Systems | Text pp. 185-86 | |
| November 14 | Poles & Zeros | Text pp. 156-62 | |
| November 16 | Text pp. 186-89 | ||
| November 19 | Outputs & Inputs | Text pp. 179-82 | |
| Root Locus Methods | |||
| Block Diagrams | Text pp. 162-66, 214-16 | ||
| Process Interconnection -- Series | Text p. 190 | ||
| Integrators | Text p. 190-91 | ||
| Block Diagrams | Text pp. 162-66, 214-16 | ||
| Process Interconnection -- Recycle | Text pp. 198-201 | ||
| Process Interconnection -- Parallel | |||
| Root Locus Methods | |||
| Root Locus Methods | |||
| Dynamic Effects of P-only Control | Text pp. 257-63 | ||
| November 21 | Dynamic Effects of PI Control | Text pp. 264-70 | |
| Pole Placement & Direct Synthesis | Text pp. 272-76 | ||
| November 23 | Pole Placement & Direct Synthesis | Text pp. 272-76 | |
| Open Loop Unstable Systems | |||
| November 28 | Initial Controller Settings | Text pp. 277-82 | |
| November 30 | Cascade Control | Text pp. | |
| December 2 | Ratio Control | ||
| Feedforward Control | |||
| December 5 | Feedforward Control | ||
| Deadtime Compensation | |||
| December 7 | General Review | ||
| December 9 | General Review | ||
| TBA | Final Exam |
Revised: 12 August 2009 by RMP