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PREFACE<br />
The first edition <strong>of</strong> this book appeared over fifteen years ago. It was the first<br />
chemical engineering textbook to combine modeling, simulation, and control. It<br />
also was the first chemical engineering book to present sampled-data control.<br />
This choice <strong>of</strong> subjects proved to be popular with both students and teachers and<br />
<strong>of</strong> considerable practical utility.<br />
During the ten-year period following publication, I resisted suggestions<br />
from the publisher to produce a second edition because I felt there were really<br />
very few useful new developments in the field. The control hardware had changed<br />
drastically, but the basic concepts and strategies <strong>of</strong> process control had undergone<br />
little change. Most <strong>of</strong> the new books that have appeared during the last<br />
fifteen years are very similar in their scope and content to the first edition. Basic<br />
classical control is still the major subject.<br />
However, in the last five years, a number <strong>of</strong> new and useful techniques have<br />
been developed. This is particularly true in the area <strong>of</strong> multivariable control.<br />
There<strong>for</strong>e I feel it is time <strong>for</strong> a second edition.<br />
In the area <strong>of</strong> process control, new methods <strong>of</strong> analysis and synthesis <strong>of</strong><br />
control systems have been developed and need to be added to the process control<br />
engineer’s bag <strong>of</strong> practical methods. The driving <strong>for</strong>ce <strong>for</strong> much <strong>of</strong> this development<br />
was the drastic increase in energy costs in the 1970s. This led to major<br />
redesigns <strong>of</strong> many new and old processes, using energy integration and more<br />
complex processing schemes. The resulting plants are more interconnected. This<br />
increases control loop interactions and expands the dimension <strong>of</strong> control problems.<br />
There are many important processes in which three, four, or even more<br />
control loops interact.<br />
As a result, there has been a lot <strong>of</strong> research activity in multivariable control,<br />
both in academia and in industry. Some practical, useful tools have been developed<br />
to design control systems <strong>for</strong> these multivariable processes. The second<br />
edition includes a fairly comprehensive discussion <strong>of</strong> what I feel are the useful<br />
techniques <strong>for</strong> controlling multivariable processes.<br />
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