Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
Comparison of PID Control Algorithms
From ExperTune, about differences in PID control algorithms and controllers.
http://www.expertune.com/artCE87.html
Control Arts Inc.
Commercial software for chemical and related industries: multivariable and application specific controllers, alarm history analysis, tools for operations management and process control.
http://www.controlartsinc.com/
Control Station
Software for process control analysis, tuning and training, demo available.
http://www.controlstation.com/
Control Systems Lab Online
From the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, various systems for online experiments.
See also How it Works.
http://chem.engr.utc.edu/Webres/Stations/controlslab.html
Control Tutorials for Matlab
Learn how to use Matlab for the analysis and design of automatic control systems.
http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/
Distillation Column Control Design
Paper about designing control systems for distillation columns using steady state models, includes an example for illustration, pdf.
http://www.aspentech.com/publication_files/Distillation_Column_Control_Design_Using_Steady_State.pdf
Dynamic Simulation of Chemical Process...
...as a Tool to Teach "The Real Problem" of Identification and Control. A paper by Marta S. Basualdo presented at the ASEE/IEEE FIE 95 Conference.
http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie95/3b3/3b32/3b32.htm
Feedback and Temperature Control
Feedback control demonstrated at the example of an oven controlled by a PID temperature controller. Includes an interactive simulation of the oven-controller system to experiment with.
http://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/Feedback/index.html
Neural Network FAQ
Find answers to frequently asked questions about Neural Networks (NN): What are NNs? Who is concerned with NNs? Free and commercial software, hardware...
ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html
PID Control Information
From John Shaw, a brief description of the standard PID control algorithm used in most controllers.
http://www.jashaw.com/pid/
Process Control Education
T. Marlin at McMaster University provides interactive questions and answers, tutorials with solutions, and extensive enrichment material on instrumentation and valves.
http://www.pc-education.mcmaster.ca/
Signals, Systems, Control
Demonstrations developed by students at Johns Hopkins University, mostly with Java applets.
http://www.jhu.edu/~signals/
The Very Basics of Control
From the ECOSSE Control HyperCourse, why control is used and an introduction to the basic concept of simple feedback control.
http://eweb.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/courses/control/restricted/course/second/course/outline1.html
Virtual Control Laboratory
From the ECOSSE Control HyperCourse, a series of online simulation experiments. Java enabled browser required to see the graphical results.
http://eweb.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/courses/control/course/map/index.html
Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
