Simulation of Industrial Processes for Control Engineers
eBook - ePub

Simulation of Industrial Processes for Control Engineers

  1. 390 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Simulation of Industrial Processes for Control Engineers

About this book

Computer simulation is the key to comprehending and controlling the full-scale industrial plant used in the chemical, oil, gas and electrical power industries. Simulation of Industrial Processes for Control Engineers shows how to use the laws of physics and chemistry to produce the equations to simulate dynamically all the most important unit operations found in process and power plant.The book explains how to model chemical reactors, nuclear reactors, distillation columns, boilers, deaerators, refrigeration vessels, storage vessels for liquids and gases, liquid and gas flow through pipes and pipe networks, liquid and gas flow through installed control valves, control valve dynamics (including nonlinear effects such as static friction), oil and gas pipelines, heat exchangers, steam and gas turbines, compressors and pumps, as well as process controllers (including three methods of integral desaturation). The phenomenon of markedly different time responses ("stiffness") is considered and various ways are presented to get around the potential problem of slow execution time. The book demonstrates how linearization may be used to give a diverse check on the correctness of the as-programmed model and explains how formal techniques of model validation may be used to produce a quantitative check on the simulation model's overall validity.The material is based on many years' experience of modelling and simulation in the chemical and power industries, supplemented in recent years by university teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Several important new results are presented. The depth is sufficient to allow real industrial problems to be solved, thus making the book attractive to engineers working in industry. But the book's step-by-step approach makes the text appropriate also for post-graduate students of control engineering and for undergraduate students in electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering who are studying process control in their second year or later.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Foreword
  6. Notation
  7. Chapter 1: Introduction
  8. Chapter 2: Fundamental concepts of dynamic simulation
  9. Chapter 3: Thermodynamics and the conservation equations
  10. Chapter 4: Steady-state incompressible flow
  11. Chapter 5: Flow through ideal nozzles
  12. Chapter 6: Steady-state compressible flow
  13. Chapter 7: Control valve liquid flow
  14. Chapter 8: Liquid flow through the installed control valve
  15. Chapter 9: Control valve gas flow
  16. Chapter 10: Gas flow through the installed control valve
  17. Chapter 11: Accumulation of liquids and gases in process vessels
  18. Chapter 12: Two-phase systems: boiling, condensing and distillation
  19. Chapter 13: Chemical reactions
  20. Chapter 14: Turbine nozzles
  21. Chapter 15: Steam and gas turbines
  22. Chapter 16: Steam and gas turbines: simplified model
  23. Chapter 17: Turbo pumps and compressors
  24. Chapter 18: Flow networks
  25. Chapter 19: Pipeline dynamics
  26. Chapter 20: Distributed components: heat exchangers and tubular reactors
  27. Chapter 21: Nuclear reactors
  28. Chapter 22: Process controllers and control valve dynamics
  29. Chapter 23: Linearization
  30. Chapter 24: Model validation
  31. Appendix 1: Comparative size of energy terms
  32. Appendix 2: Explicit calculation of compressible flow using approximating functions
  33. Appendix 3: Equations for control valve flow in SI units
  34. Appendix 4: Comparison of Fisher Universal Gas Sizing Equation, FUGSE, with the nozzle-based model for control valve gas flow
  35. Appendix 5: Measurement of the internal energy of reaction and the enthalpy of reaction using calorimeters
  36. Appendix 6: Comparison of efficiency formulae with experimental data for convergent-only and convergentā€“divergent nozzles
  37. Appendix 7: Approximations used in modelling turbine reaction stages in off-design conditions
  38. Appendix 8: Fuel pin average temperature and effective heat transfer coefficient
  39. Appendix 9: Conditions for emergence from saturation for P + I controllers with integral desaturation
  40. Index