Book Description:This book, now in its
second edition, presents in a comprehensive manner the fundamentals of computer-based control of industrial processes. Intended primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate students of instrumentation/electronics engineering, the book will also be immensely useful for professionals and researchers in these fields.
The book begins with a thorough introduction to automation—its history, utility and the current scenario. It then moves on to discuss in detail the techniques, components, subsystems and system architectures relevant to process control. The control techniques covered include classical controls as well as newer controls such as model-based adaptive control, self-tuning control, expert systems and fuzzy logic control. The components consist of sensors and actuators of various types. The subsystems covered are SCADA systems, remote terminal units for telemetry and telecontrol, programmable controllers, distributed digital controllers and personal computers.
Also included are real-time operating systems and real-time programming languages. The major architectures discussed are distributed digital control, distributed SCADA system and multi-microprocessor architectures.
The book thoroughly covers the various technological developments in this field. It also covers, through a number of case studies, the applications of computer-based control in major industries.
The second edition contains substantially revised and updated content on a large number of topics covered in the first edition.
Features:
Contents:contents Foreword • Preface Preface to First Edition Acknowledgements 0. Introduction 1. Fundamentals of Automatic Process Control 2. Transducers: Present and Future 3. Building Blocks of Automation System 4. Final Control Element 5. Display Systems 6. Direct Digital Control: Structure and Software 7. Distributed Digital Control 8. Real-time Programming 9. Personal Computer in Real-time Environment 10. Programmable Controllers 11. Modeling and Simulation for Plant Automation 12. Industrial Control Applications 13. Intelligent Controllers Bibliography • Index
About the Author:Dr. KRISHNA KANT, Ph.D., is Dean (Academic) at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. Earlier he served as Senior Director in the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. He received his Masters in Physics (with specialization in Electronics) in 1972 from Jabalpur University, his Masters in Computer Science in 1975 from BITS Pilani, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1980 from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
Dr. Krishna Kant has wide experience in designing and implementing microprocessor-based, real-time systems for different applications. He coordinated the UNDP project on Microprocessor Application Engineering Programme (MAEP) and was closely associated with the conceptualization and development of a number of agri-instrumentation systems at MAEP centre at JNKVV Jabalpur. He also imparted training to agriculture scientists on microprocessor applications. He taught “Microprocessor and Applications” and “Computer Control of Processes” courses to MCA and ME students, respectively, for three years in the University of Delhi. He has authored five books.
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