2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

CAPE3321 Process Optimisation and Control

20 creditsClass Size: 150

Module manager: Professor X Z Wang
Email: x.z.wang@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

This module is mutually exclusive with

CAPE5321M

Process Optimisation and Control

Module replaces

PEME3331 Process Optimisation and Control

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

- Introduce students to the basic principles and practical methodologies for process integration, optimisation and control.
- Train students the skills of applying the principles and methodologies to practical applications.
- Introduce the development in the general areas of process optimisation and control.
- Prepare students with the background knowledge for employment in the process industries as well as for postgraduate studies and research.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should have a good knowledge of:
- Pinch analysis and process integration and proven techniques in deterministic optimisation algorithms for both linear and nonlinear problems.
- Process control objectives, control system components, feedback control configurations, controller tuning, feedforward and cascade control, process dynamics and model identification and control; control strategies for unit operations, P&ID diagrams drawing.

Skills outcomes
On completion of this module, students should have the following skills:
- Be able to set energy targets for simple processes based on thermodynamic principles.
- Formulate and solve both linear and non-linear basic optimisation problems using deterministic optimisation algorithms.
- Develop control strategies for a given process, read and draw P&ID diagrams, being able to analyse system dynamics and develop appropriate control strategies.

Syllabus

Process Integration and Optimisation:
- Pinch analysis and process integration: minimum utility loads and pinch temperature, estimations of heat exchanger surface areas and number of heat-exchangers, loops and paths used to restore the minimum approach temperature.
- Optimisation theory and methods: classic theory for unconstrained extremum, Lagrange multiplier methods, linear programming and its applications, the Simplex algorithm, Integer programming, dynamic programming.

Process Control:
- Signals and Block Diagrams, PID controllers, controller tuning.
- Control strategy: Formulation of P&I diagrams.
- Translation into block diagrams.
- Control schemes for a variety of items of plant.
- Use of feedback, cascade, ratio, feedforward, and other strategies.
- Control theory: Laplace transforms.
- Partial fractions.
- Transfer functions.
- First order systems.
- Second order systems.
- Underdamped systems: response time, overshoot, decay ratio, etc.
- Block diagram algebra.
- Characteristic equation.
- Higher order systems.
- Lumped parameter models of plant.
- Linearisation and deviation variables.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	2.00	2.00
Lecture	22	1.00	22.00
Tutorial	11	1.00	11.00
Private study hours			165.00
Total Contact hours			35.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

The students are expected to read the recommended textbooks together with the handouts for developing an understanding of the topics covered in the formal classes. They should look at the worked out example problems in textbooks to learn how theory can be applied to solve practical problems. To develop problem solving skills they should independently try to solve the problems given in the Problem Sheets provided by the lecturers and also textbook exercise problems prior to the tutorial class.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students' progress will be monitored via:
- the extent of participation and response to questions asked in the formal lecture and tutorial classes;
- the attendance in lecture and tutorial classes.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Optimisation: Pinch Analysis & Process Integration	10.00
Assignment	Control: Stability Analysis of Control System Design	10.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		20.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr	80.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		80.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 26/04/2017

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