Stephanopoulos G. (1984). Chemical process control, an introduction to theory and practice. Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, USA, ISBN 0-13-128629-3

Dale E. Seborg, Thomas F. Edgar, Duncan A. Mellichamp, Francis J. Doyle III (2016). Process Dynamics and Control, 4th Edition. John Wiley & Sons Inc., ISBN: 978-1-119-28591-5

Additional literature:

Varney A.L. (2014). Process Control: Theory, Applications, and Challenges. Nova Science Pub Inc; UK ed. edition, ISBN 978-1-63117-227-4

Seborg, Dale E.; Edgar, Thomas F.; Mellichamp, Duncan A.; Doyle, Francis J. (2019). Process Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons Inc., ISBN 9781119587491

1. Introduction: Aim of process control; terminology

2. Dynamic behaviour of linear systems

3. First order systems

4. Second order systems

5. Higher order systems

6. Feedback control: Principle – examples

7. Feedback control: Controller types

8. Feedback control: Open-loop versus closed-loop dynamics

9. Controller selection and tuning

10. Controller design problem

11. Performance criteria

12. Controller type selection

13. Controller tuning

14. Cascade control - feedforward control

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Written examination, oral examination