- Course Introduction: motivation for process control. Basic concepts of control and key elements.
- Quality index of sensors. Sensors for: temperature, pressure, pH, flowrate, compositions and quality indexes. Final element of control: pneumatic valves.
- Elements of probability and statistics: probability, random variables, variance and covariance, linear regression. General methods: evaluation of measurement uncertainty.
- Response of linear systems and dynamics behavior of the states
- Stability and controllability properties.
- Control design
- Feedback control: proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller
- Feedback controller design for industrial units.