052:185 Process Dynamics and Control in Design Fall 2010  2229 SC  Lecture 9:30 – 10:45 Tue / Thur Version 8/19/2010 Page 1 of 6 Instructor Information: Office hours office email phone Professor Charlie Stanier to be announced 4122 SC [email protected] 335-1399 TA Wondwossen Anbessie to be announced [email protected] Course Description: This senior level course is designed to enable the synthesis of chemical engineering concepts in the understanding of practical chemical processes. Students will evaluate the behavior of real processes beyond idealized steady-state models. Students will learn how to determine system behavior under a variety of conditions. This knowledge base will ultimately enable engineers to predict process performance in response to changing conditions. Skills developed in this course will enable students to develop a fundamental understanding of process dynamics and feedback control. This understanding ultimately will enable the students to function as industrial process engineers. TEXT: Chemical and Bio-Process Control, Third edition James B. Riggs and M. Nazmul Karim 2006 Ferret Publishing, Lubbock Texas Supporting Texts: Process Dynamics and Control (2nd ed) Seborg, Edgar, and Mellichamp, Wiley 2004 Introduction to Matlab for Engineers and Scientists. Douglas Etter. Prentice-Hall 1996. Addtional Resources can be found on the course Icon page: http://icon.uiowa.edu/052:185 Process Dynamics and Control in Design Fall 2010  2229 SC  Lecture 9:30 – 10:45 Tue / Thur Version 8/19/2010 Page 2 of 6 Course Components: Course activities will include in-class problem solving, quizzes, homework, laboratory assignments, and design-based problems. Material covered will include theory and application of process dynamics to the design of chemical process control systems; mathematical models of unit operations, transfer functions, feedback and feed-forward control, stability, instrumentation, digital control systems; computer methods, including simulation and commercial software use. Students will be tested on this material. Active class participation is encouraged. Through in-class problem solving, students will be increasing skill and fundamental understanding of process control concepts. Quizzes will help the students reinforce strengths and identify areas for further study. There will be two in-class exams comprised of analytical problems based on material covered since the last exam. The goals of the exams are to determine and demonstrate ability to perform good engineering analysis. These exams will help students grow in confidence regarding their skills for analytical thinking with a minimal amount of supporting material. Therefore, these exams will be closed-book. The course will also include a comprehensive open-book final exam. The final exam period for this class is 2:15 PM, Tuesday December 15, 2009. The course includes training in solving differential equations using MATLAB scripts and functions, and in Excel. Students are expected to be proficient at specifying and solving systems of differential equations in the time domain, and using transfer functions. This course also includes the process control laboratory. The laboratory will consist of operating and evaluating PID flow, level, and temperature control systems that operate using DeltaV and Labview software/hardware systems. The College of Engineering has licenses for Matlab that can be used in the engineering computing labs. Some exercises with the software will be performed in the engineering electronic classroom 1245 SC. The laboratory equipment will help students become familiar with control hardware and practical applications in control. Students will perform the labs in groups. Homework will be assigned on a biweekly basis as shown in the attached schedule. The TA will grade the homework and laboratory assignments. Late assignments will incur a 10% grade deduction for each day the assignment is past due.052:185 Process Dynamics and Control in Design Fall 2010 Version 8/19/2010 Page 3 of 6 Scheduling of Labs The scheduled lab time for this course is 1:30-4:20 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There will be four labs to complete and each is associated with a written lab report. While students are in the lab, the teaching assistant is to be present. Therefore, all labs must be performed during prearranged times. For students with absolute conflicts during the 1:30-4:20 time period, reasonable accommodations will be made, subject to the schedule constraints of the teaching assistant. That said, we expect that students will also make reasonable accommodations in their schedules. It is the responsibility of the students to complete the labs, and scheduling conflicts will not be accepted as an excuse for incomplete or late lab reports. Lab reports will be returned with comments and (for at least some of the labs) lab groups are expected to revise the lab reports and turn them in a 2nd time. Addressing critical comments effectively is an important skill that is part of the professionalism expected by engineers. Grading Policy Professor Stanier will grade all exams and projects. This course is not curved. Absolute cutoffs for letter grades will be assigned for each exam, for the sum of all the quiz scores, for the sum of the homework grades, and for each lab exercise. For example, for homework and attendance, the following scale will be used: > 90 = A 77-89 = B 63-76 = C 45-62 = D Attendance, in-class participation, and participation and professionalism in lab assignments and lab groups: 12% Homework: 20% In class (2) exams: 20% Quizzes: 14% Final exam: 16% Lab exercises: 18%052:185 Process Dynamics and Control in Design Fall 2010 Version 8/19/2010 Page 4 of 6 Course Learning Goals By the end of the course, you will have Increased in knowledge and ability such that 1. you will be able to write time-dependent differential equations which describe real operations for single input/single output (SISO) systems. 2. you will be able to construct control block diagrams (i.e. control logic diagrams) for everyday and conventional examples of controllable systems. 3. you will be able to use Laplace transforms to evaluate process dynamics and to solve differential equations 4. you will be able to define transfer functions for dynamic systems. 5. you will be able to use evaluate and