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Title of the course

MM 401 :? Introduction to Process Control?Theory and Instrumentation??

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Credit structure

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Pre-requisite, if any

None

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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.

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Texts/References

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

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

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

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

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

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Instructor(s) name

Prof. N.K.Khosla

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