2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering
Process Control Engineering
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Hideyuki Matsumoto
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- CAP.G307
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Apr 2, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The goal of this course is for students to learn the basics of process control engineering. Students learn definition of process systems, and importance of process control. Students study basic steps for design of process control systems. Moreover, students study methodology for design of control systems based on the process modeling.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Have an understanding of approaches to process modeling and process control, which are essential for performing process design and operation.
2) Have an understanding of mathematical means to perform process control such as transfer function and block diagram expression, and apply these mathematical techniques to design of PID controller for SISO system.
Keywords
Process control, Modeling, Simulation
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
A lecture is given on each topic. I assign practice problems for each class to check students' understanding of the material.
In the lecture, students also practice using MATLAB / Simulink.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Dynamics of chemical process and its control | Understanding of the nature of the dynamics of chemical processes, and understanding of the significance of process control. |
| Class 2 | Basic steps in designing a process control system | Understanding of the basic steps in designing a process control system. Understanding of the hardware configuration of process control systems, including sensors and actuators. |
| Class 3 | Dynamic modeling of chemical process using transfer function | Deriving of transfer functions from first-principles models of chemical processes, and understanding of characteristics of time response of the processes. |
| Class 4 | Representation of process control systems using block diagrams | Understanding of the representation of process control systems using block diagrams, and understanding of the basics of internal model control. |
| Class 5 | PID control for SISO system | Understanding of the basics of PID control, and understanding of methods for building black-box models and tuning control parameters for SISO system.system. |
| Class 6 | Various structures of process control systems | Understanding of various structures of process control systems such as multi-loop control system. |
| Class 7 | Achievement test and commentary on test content | Checking of the degree of achievement in learning the contents of the lectures. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Use the course materials to be distributed on Science Tokyo LMS.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Masahiro Ohshima: Process Control Systems, Corona Publishing Co., Ltd. (2003)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students’ course scores are based on submitted reports to subjects and achievement test.
Related courses
- CAP.C205 ： Chemical Process Stoichiometry
- CAP.C206 ： Chemical Reaction Engineering I (Homogeneous System)
- CAP.C201 ： Transport Phenomena I (Momentum)
- CAP.C202 ： Transport Phenomena II (Heat)
- CAP.C203 ： Transport Phenomena III (Mass)
- CAP.C212 ： Separation Operation
Prerequisites
Students who have earned credits for Chemical Process System I (Control) are not eligible to take this course.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
matsumoto[at]mct.isct.ac.jp
Office hours
Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.