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Some Industrial Systems

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In this chapter, we discuss the input/output dynamical behavior of several industrial systems that are frequently employed in practice and examine the main features of each system. These systems include steam generation unit, small-power wind turbine, unmanned surface marine vehicle, industrial evaporation unit, multi-stage evaporation, distillation unit and falling film evaporator. The material sets forth the scene for implementing the information-based approach to control system design which starts with system identification methods.

In this chapter, the physical description of some industrial processes that are frequently employed in practice. It is well known that process dynamics and control is an inter-disciplinary area where the disciplines of process, control and information engineering are of major importance. Process engineering offers the basic knowledge about an application by developing rigorous dynamic process models and control engineering provides design tools and techniques to meet some prescribed requirements and information engineering facilitates the means for implementations. Process modeling is usually derived from the conservation balances for mass, component, energy and momentum (Roffel and Betlem, 2006).

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Mahmoud, M.S., Xia, Y. (2012). Some Industrial Systems. In: Applied Control Systems Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2879-3_2

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