Designing Controls for the Process Industries (Second edition)

Includes an introduction to the various types of field instruments.

Contains a chapter on control system projects and a recommended lifecycle for plant automation system projects.

Discusses real-time controllers and higher-level automation functions such as multi-variable controls and data reconciliation systems for process and safety applications.

Shows how to specify simple regulatory and supervisory control strategies and basic safety automation controls and controls for continuous and batch processes.

Now features dozens of tutorial videos showing solutions to most of the example problems, new homework and example problems, information about statistical process control, and a new case study that documents the development of regulatory control schemes for an entire process area.

Includes PowerPoint slides for each chapter, multiple choice questions for flipped classes, and a solutions manual for qualifying instructors.