Mar 29, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2019-20 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2019-20 [Archived Catalog]

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CHE 4200 - Chemical Process Control


Control of chemical manufacturing processes. Steady state and dynamic characteristics of chemical processes, measurement devices and control elements, and control systems. Design, analysis, simulation, and optimization of chemical process control systems.

Requisites: CHE 3600 and 3700 and 3800
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 recitation
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:  

  • Students will be able to define fundamental process control terms.
  • Students will be able to explain the operation of a regulatory control system in feedback, feed forward, cascade, or ratio control configuration using both block diagrams and general process and instrumentation diagrams.
  • Students will be able to identify and describe measurement devices and final control elements commonly used the chemical process industries and some of their advantages and drawbacks in use.
  • Students will be able to interpret detailed piping and instrumentation diagrams.
  • Students will be able to design and optimize a control system for common chemical process units, including identifying and evaluating candidate controlled and manipulated variables, instrumentation, and strategies.
  • Students will be able to describe steady state and dynamic characteristics of typical chemical processes and controllers, and how they influence control system design and tuning.
  • Students will be able to use dynamic process measurements to justify choices of process control mode and decisions in controller tuning.
  • Students will be able to justify choices in process control system design based on considerations of controllability, safety, or environmental protection.



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