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ChEn 436 Process Dynamics Exam Guide

The document outlines the final exam for ChEn 436, focusing on process dynamics and control, with sections for personal notes, short answer questions, and a system analysis involving transfer functions. Key topics include system response characteristics, controller tuning, and stability analysis of a cooling water control system. Students are required to sketch diagrams and derive expressions related to the control processes discussed.

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ChEn 436 Process Dynamics Exam Guide

The document outlines the final exam for ChEn 436, focusing on process dynamics and control, with sections for personal notes, short answer questions, and a system analysis involving transfer functions. Key topics include system response characteristics, controller tuning, and stability analysis of a cooling water control system. Students are required to sketch diagrams and derive expressions related to the control processes discussed.

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ChEn 436 – Process Dynamics and Control

Final Exam

Closed Book, 4 Pages Personal Notes

College Lecture Attendance

I attended ___________ college lecture(s) or equivalent lectures this semester. (2 required)


1. Short Answer Questions

a. Sketch the response of a second order system that is underdamped. Please indicate on your
sketch how to calculate rise time, overshoot ratio, decay ratio, and settling time.

b. Give three similarities of (i) cascade control and (ii) feed-forward control with feedback trim.

c. Which is better, a shorter rise time or a smaller overshoot ratio?

d. What does it mean to "tune" a controller?

e. Is the following system feedforward? Explain your answer.


2. For a system where the transfer function is:
Y s 2

X s 5s  1
and the input function is
1 2e 2s e 5s
X s  2  2  2
s s s
(a) Please sketch the shape of the input function X'(s) in the time domain.

(b) Please derive the final expression for y'(t).


Measured
Controller Var
Output
iable
4

3
y'(t)

0
0 2 4 6 8 10
t
3. Cooling water flows through a jacket to control the temperature of a reactor, as shown below.
The transfer function relating the reactor temperature T to the flow rate of cooling water through
the jacket (Qw) is:
T s  0.7 F/gpm

Qws  s  12s  1
where the time constants are in minutes. The valve on the cooling water inlet fails in the open
position (air-to-close), and passes 360 gpm of water when completely open. You may assume that
the pressure drop across the valve is constant, that valve dynamics are negligible, and that the valve
is linear. The temperature transmitter has a range of 200-400F and requires about 0.5 minutes for
a reading to reach its final value (5). The output from the transmitter is a 4-20 mA signal to the
reverse-acting controller. The proportional-only controller outputs a current signal, which is
converted to pressure in a standard I/P transducer (4-20 mA, 3-15 psig). Sketch a block diagram
for the system and determine the transfer function for each of the blocks, including units.

Mario Diaz notices that the process is unstable, but claims that stable operation can be achieved
with the feedback control loop shown and a proportional-only controller. What range of values of
Kc (if any) will make this process stable?

Kp -0.7
Tau1 1
b1 1
 Tau2 2
Multiple Choice (Circle One) b2 -1
Km 0.08
a) 1.23 < Kc < 6.52 Taum 0.1
K_I-P 0.75
Kv -30
b) -10.2 < Kc < 10.2 a4 0.2
a3 2.1
c) 0.79 < Kc < 8.29 a2 0.9
a1_KC 1.26
a1_b -1
Kc> 0.793651
KC< 8.293651

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