Controls Textbook Pdf
Adeline Lynady
This book is 1400 pages long, so it covers a lot of material. In fact, you can to go more than 500 pages into the book to find coverage on Chemical Process Dynamics and Control. The table of contents alone is 30 pages long. In reality this book...read more
This book is 1400 pages long, so it covers a lot of material. In fact, you can to go more than 500 pages into the book to find coverage on Chemical Process Dynamics and Control. The table of contents alone is 30 pages long. In reality this book also covers statistics, instrumentation, and piping and instrumentation diagram (P&IDs) in a fairly comprehensive fashion. However, the book does not have any homework problems, meaning if you used this as a course textbook, you would have to create all of the homework problems yourself, and it does not have an index.
The prose is written in a manner that most engineers could understand it. However, there is a problem with the sequence of the chapters. The chapters on the different types of instrumentation refer to control techniques that are not covered until you go 500 pages further into the book. It would see where this would cause problems for most students.
As I mentioned previously, sequencing is definitely a problem. Control concepts are cited in the first 500 pages of the book, but are not explained to the reader until you get 500 pages further into the text.
The equations in this book are all a bit fuzzy looking. They appear to have been copied and pasted from other documents with too little resolution. Also, many of the figures also suffer from too few pixels. Today's students would not like it.
This book could serve as a good reference for a number of topics including instrumentation, statistics, P&IDs and process control. However, it really would not make a good undergraduate level textbook for many of the reasons I have cited above.
Process controls is a mixture between the statistics and engineering discipline that deals with the mechanism, architectures, and algorithms for controlling a process. Some examples of controlled processes are:
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I'm learning about threads and processes in an Operating Systems course, and I've come across an apparent contradiction in my textbook (Modern Operating Systems, 4th Ed. by Tanenbaum and Bos). I'm sure there's a something I'm misinterpreting here, it'd be great if someone could clear things up.
Another common thread call is thread_yield, which allows a thread to voluntarily give up the CPU to let another thread run. Such a call is important because there is no clock interrupt to actually enforce multiprogramming as there is with processes
As an example, consider the errno variable maintained by UNIX. When a process (or a thread) makes a system call that fails, the error code is put into errno. In Fig. 2-19, thread 1 executes the system call access to find out if it has permission to access a certain file. The operating system returns the answer in the global variable errno. After control has returned to thread 1, but before it has a chance to read errno, the scheduler decides that thread 1 has had enough CPU time for the moment and decides to switch to thread 2.
This makes sense if we're going about process-level threads instead of OS-level threads. The CPU can interrupt a process (regardless of what thread is running), but because the OS is not aware of process-level threads, it cannot interrupt them. If one thread inside the process wants to allow another thread to run, it has to specifically yield to the other thread.
Run time libraries were created (largely to support Ada). That worked within a process. The process maintained a timer that would interrupt a threads and the library would switch among threads much like the operating system switches processes.
Later, operating system started to develop support for threads. Rather than scheduling a process, the operating system schedules threads for execution. A process is then an address space with a collection of threads. Your second example is talking about this kind of thread.
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The Evaporators, Condesners, and Controls textbook covers gravity feed, overfeed, dump trap, CPR, and DX supply systems. It describes evaporator and evaporative condenser design, selection, and operation. It discusses various defrost systems' hot gas, electric, water, and glycol spray. Finally, the textbook examines stop, shutoff, relief, check, solenoid, expansion, pressure-regulating, and float valves.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain how refrigerant flows in a thermosyphon system and describe the requirements for a surge drum in a gravity feed system.
- List the benefits of a machine room liquid recirculation unit and benefits compared to direct expansion systems.
- Describe the various level controls used in a recirculation unit and explain how the liquid refrigerant is pumped from the recirculation unit through the evaporator coils.
- Describe how a dump trap functions and how it differs from a pumped overfeed system.
- Discuss the differences between a recirculation unit and a CPR system.
- Explain how a thermal expansion valve works and why a DX coil must have more heat transfer surface than an overfeed coil.
- Describe the liquid feed and operation of flooded ammonia shell-and-tube fluid coolers.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss basic details of evaporator operation, including the use of secondary coolant.
- List basic principles affecting evaporator heat transfer ability in DX and liquid overfeed systems.
- Discuss the reasons for coil fins and enhanced tube designs.
- Describe common DX and flooded liquid chillers.
- Discuss the construction and operation of evaporators used as air coils (coolers), including the benefits of penthouse installation.
- Describe the operation of various common kinds of freezers and ice makers.
- Explain how subcoolers, intercoolers, and thermosyphon oil coolers function as evaporators.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain why ice and frost form on a coil and discuss the problems resulting from this formation.
- Describe the basic process of defrosting by means of hot gas from the compressor discharge.
- Explain how the soft hot gas defrost system protects large industrial coils.
- Describe common defrost methods that do not use hot gas-electric, water, continuous glycol spray, and room air.
- Describe preset timer defrost methods.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the basic differences between air-cooled, water-cooled, and evaporative condensers and discuss the main operating features of each.
- Discuss the benefits of the evaporative condenser and explain why it has the lowest condensing temperature.
- Describe the design components of an evaporative condenser and explain how they work together to provide cooling.
- Discuss both the process of condenser selection and good and bad practices in locating condensers.
- Describe proper piping and equalization practices for both single and multiple condenser installations.
- Explain the need for condenser winterization and capacity control and discuss proper water treatment to control mineral and bacterial content.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the relief valve safety requirements as specified by the ASHRAE 15 code.
- Explain why dual relief valves are used, describe proper positioning of the three-way diverting valve, and explain how to calculate relief valve flow capacity.
- Describe the functioning of the various stop valves used on ammonia systems and explain why angle valves are preferred.
- Describe the various kinds of check valves and solenoid valve uses in automatic control on ammonia refrigeration systems.
- Describe the operation and functions of the hand expansion valve and describe typical pressure regulating valve applications and methods by which the valve is controlled.
- Discuss system high-side and low-side float valve uses and describe the operation of mechanical float switches.
- Discuss the benefits of the newer electronic level controllers in the automatic control of liquid levels, safety alarms, and system shutdown procedures.