Industrial needs and computer development have a profound impact on the education, research, and practice of process control technology. Introduction to Process Control provides a bridge between the conventional view and role of process control and the current, expanded view. The book shows how the concepts of data processing and reconciliation and process monitoring are blended into the control system environment. Chapters cover issues of controlling and operating chemical processes, modeling principles, the design of feedback control systems, multivariable systems, plant-wide control, industrial control technology, data processing and reconciliation, and process monitoring. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.