Advanced Regulatory Control: Applications and Techniques

Without modern instrumentation control, industry would be at a standstill. Whether the control hardware consists of local mechanical, pneumatic, or electronic controls, electronic or pneumatic analog controllers, microprocessor-based controllers, programmable logic controllers, personal computer-based controls, or a distributed control system, a keen awareness of advanced regulatory control is required by engineers, technicians, educators, managers, salespersons, and marketing personnel in order that appropriate control technology be applied to industrial processes.

This book is intended to describe advanced regulatory control and its application to continuous processes in a nonmathematical format and in as practical a manner as possible in order to be of benefit to all skill levels. Manual and regulatory control are described in the text as a prelude to advanced regulatory control so that their differences might be explored. It focuses on control but integrates the operations of measurement devices and final control elements into discussions, because their importance is often the limiting factor in control system performance.

Readers will Find…

An explanation of the operation and limitations of feedback control

Illustrations of the integration of cascade and feedforward control into feedback control loops

A clear approach to design and implement advanced regulatory control

An instructor at the ISA Training Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., throughout the United States, and internationally in the ISA Short Course Program, Mr. Spitzer is the author of Industrial Flow Measurement (ISA Press), Variable Speed Drives: Principles and Applications for Energy Cost Savings (ISA Press), Consumer Guides to Coriolis Mass, Differential Pressure, Magnetic, Ultrasonic, and Vortex Shedding Flowmeters, and Contact and Non-Contact Level Gauges (Copperhill and Pointer), as well as the Volume Editor of Flow Measurement (ISA Press). Mr. Spitzer has also written some 15 articles in various technical magazines.