Essential process control for chemical engineers

This book is based on the course notes from the introductory process control class at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. This course is itself based on the IChemE model-curriculum for chemical engineers and covers the material that ALL chemical engineers are supposed know. The IChemE curriculum was drawn up by a team of industrialists and academics, led by Professor Jon Love, in response to a recognised need for chemical engineers to be taught a more industrially relevant course. This book isn’t a traditional academic textbook in that there are no references anywhere in the text. The main reason for this is that the material has been gathered from many different sources after a working lifetime of teaching in the area and trying to identify an original source is impossible. I have included a bibliography for readers who wish to look further into the subject. I hope students and teachers find this book useful. A major new part of the course at Strathclyde University (where I teach) has been the introduction of new process control learning software called PISim, and this is described in the appendix. PISim will be commercially released in late Autum 2017.