10.450  Process Dynamics, Operations, and Control

in the Lecture Notes section

I hope you enjoyed Jon Siddall's talk today.  That he is NOT a control specialist should indicate the extent to which concepts of process automation are important in a variety of activities you may encounter as an engineer.

Wed May 2: guest lecture by Prof. George Stephanopoulos.  He will introduce a concept of control that incorporates a model of the process into the algorithm.  It has far-reaching implications for control of multivariable processes, but it can also lead to guidelines for tuning ordinary PID controllers.

Fri May 4: bring your evidence books for peer review.  No problem set for Friday; work on tidying up the old stuff.

come to my office, 66-368, at classtime.  We'll lock your bags in my office and proceed to the subbasement.  If you get to my office late, you can ask my assistant to lock your bag.  Catch up to us by entering the HVAC area through double doors across from the UG teaching lab, just a bit beyond the restrooms.  However, please get a pair of safety glasses from the lab before you enter.

the nonlinear closed-loop Simulink model requires a C-compiler to run.  That may turn out to be a nuisance for everyone.

I've made an alternative version that simply interprets the matlab code - this should work more easily for you, and won't be significantly slower.  The model, and associated Matlab function file, are posted at the end of the toybox.

It worked when I tried it - let me know if you have trouble with it.

In dealing with Exam 1, I discovered an error in equation (4.18-1).  I've corrected this, as well as made some other changes based on your reading memos, in an updated posting of Lesson 4.