Development of Undergraduate Process Control Laboratory for Chemical Engineering Majors at New Mexico State University

该项目开发了一个过程控制实验室， 化学工程本科生实验 由一个水箱组成的设备（配备温度 和液位变送器）和另外两个可以模拟 相互作用或非相互作用的过程。 这 设备提供了系统温度 和/或罐中的一个中的液位可以被指定为 控制变量 控制变量可以是入口流量 和/或通过浸入式电加热器将热量加到罐中。 个人计算机用于数据采集和控制。 在本科生中进行了广泛的实验 过程控制课程和运输操作实验室。 这些实验的复杂性从简单的开环 先进的过程控制策略。

This project develops a process control laboratory for undergraduate chemical engineering students with experimental equipment which consists of one tank (equipped with temperature and level transmitters) and two other tanks which can simulate either interacting or non-interacting processes. This equipment provides the capability that the system temperature and/or liquid-level in one of the tanks can be designated as control variables. The manipulated variables can be inlet flow and/or heat added to the tank via an electric immersion heater. A personal computer is used for data acquisition and control. A wide range of experiments are performed in the undergraduate process control course and the transport operations laboratory. These experiments vary in complexity from simple open-loop dynamics to advanced process control strategies.