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Course Code

MM 401

Course Name

Process Control Theory and Instrumentation

Title of the course

MM 401: Introduction to Process Control and Theory and Instrumentation

Credit structure
LTPC
2106
Pre-requisite, if any

None

Course content

Types of controllers - on/off, P, PI, PID controllers. Modeling of mechanical translation, rotary and simple hydraulic and pneumatic systems. Block diagrams, transfer functions and steady state behavior of systems. Dynamic behavior, stability criterion. Analog computer simulation of control systems. Discrete state process control. Introduction to digital control. Characteristics of measurements, temperature measurement, flow measurement, pressure measurement, level measurement. Process and instrumentation. Diagrams of selected applications from Materials process industry.

Texts/References

Francis H. Raven, Automatic Control Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1995.

M. Ogata, Modern Control Engineering, 4th Ed., Prentice-Hall, 2001.

Curtis Johnson, Process Control Instrumentation Technology, 8th Ed., Prentice-Hall, 2005.

B.C. Nakra and K.K. Chaudhry, Instrumentation, Measurement and Analysis, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1985.

D.P. Eckeman, Industrial Instrumentation, Wiley Eastern, 1985.

Instructor(s) name

Prof. N.K.Khosla