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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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