Feedback controllers for the process industries / F.G. Shinskey

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Much confusion currently exists about the performance of feedback controllers relative to one another and relative to what is even possible to expect. The reason for much of this confusion is the multifaceted nature of process control. Academics are particularly susceptible to the narrow view in that most of their time is spent in a clean mathematical environment and a misapplication has no direct impact. Some even refuse to admit the existence of deadtime, although it can be observed wherever materials are transported. This book is an attempt to describe what, in fact, works and what does not in a plant situation, but based on very solid theory. The emphasis is on controller performance in this book,