Advanced Chemical Process Control

Morten Hovd is Professor of process control at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics of the Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU). After obtaining his doctorate in process control in 1992, he spent six years working with industry before returning to academia. Prof. Hovd has authored more than 150 scientific publications and is a member of both the IEEE Technical Committee on Process Control and the International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee on Mining, Minerals and Metals processing.

1. Mathematical and control theory background
2. Control configuration and controller tuning
3. Control structure selection and plantwide control
4. Limitations on achievable performance
5. Model-based predictive control
6. Some practical issues in controller implementation
7. Controller performance monitoring and diagnosis
8. Economic control benefit assessment