NPTEL : Plantwide Control of Chemical Processes (Chemical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Nitin Kaistha


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the course

Lecture 2 - Process Dynamics and Negative Feedback

Lecture 3 - PID control

Lecture 4 - Common Industrial Control Loops and advanced loops

Lecture 5 - Advanced loops (Continued...) and multivariable systems

Lecture 6 - Systematic Tuning Using Frequency Domain Analysis

Lecture 7 - Frequency Domain Analysis

Lecture 8 - Multivariable Systems

Lecture 9 - RGA and dynamic decoupling

Lecture 10 - Model based control

Lecture 11 - Dynamic Matrix Control

Lecture 12 - Control of Distillation Columns

Lecture 13 - Temperature inferential distillation control

Lecture 14 - Considerations in temperature inferential control

Lecture 15 - Control of Complex Column Configurations

Lecture 16 - Control of Heat Integrated Columns

Lecture 17 - Homogenous extractive distillation

Lecture 18 - More on complex columns and reactive distillation

Lecture 19 - Control of reactors

Lecture 20 - PFR controls (Continued..) & CSTRs

Lecture 21 - CSTR heat management

Lecture 22 - Heat Exchangers and Miscellaneous Systems

Lecture 23 - Degrees of freedom analysis

Lecture 24 - Degrees of freedom (Continued...)

Lecture 25 - Illustration of considerations in control structure synthesis

Lecture 26 - Two column recycle process

Lecture 27 - Throughput manipulator selection

Lecture 28 - Plantwide control structure design

Lecture 29 - Systematizing plantwide control design

Lecture 30 - The Luyben design procedure

Lecture 31 - Role of equipment capacity constraints

Lecture 32 - Recycle process case study

Lecture 33 - Recycle process case study (Continued...)

Lecture 34 - C4 isomerization process case study

Lecture 35 - C4 isomerization process case study (Continued...)

Lecture 36 - C4 isomerization process case study

Lecture 37 - Systematic economic plantwide control design procedure

Lecture 38 - Ethyl benzene process case study

Lecture 39 - C4 isomerization process revisited

Lecture 40 - Contrasting conventional and top-down approach

Lecture 41 - Cumene process plantwide control