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Design of Distillation Column Control Systems

Page S. Buckley, William L. Luyben, Joseph P. Shunta

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Part I - INTRODUCTION 1 Strategy for Distillation-Column Control 2 Fundamentals of Distillation Part II 3 Overhead System Arrangements 4 Column-Base and Reboiler Arrangements 5 Feed System Arrangements 6 Level Control and Feedforward Options 7 Control of Sidestream Drawoff Columns 8 Minimizing Energy Requirements 9 Application of Protective Controls to Distillation Columns 10 Indirect Composition Measurements 11 Miscellaneous Measurements and Controls Part III 12 Approaches to Quantitative Design 13 Tray Dynamics - Material Balance 14 Distillation-Column Material-Balance Control 15 Condenser and Reboiler Dynamics 16 Liquid Level Control 17 Pressure and P Control 18 Composition Dynamics - Binary Distillation 19 Calculation of Steady-State Gains 20 Composition Control - Binary Distillation 21 Sampled-Data Control of Distillation Columns

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Key concepts: Reboiler, Fractionating column, Distillation, Condenser (optics), Tray, Continuous distillation, Column (typography), Feed forward