IE 416 PROCESS MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION

Teaching Scheme                                                        Examination Scheme

Lectures:  3 hrs/week                                                     Mid- Sem Test– 30 marks,

                                                                                                                 Assignments and Quizzes- 20 marks,

                                                                                     End Sem  Exam - 50 marks

Unit-1

Vapor & Liquid systems: ideal & non-ideal gases. Vivial equation of state for gases, ideal & non-ideal liquid & gaseous mixtures, route’s law, Dalton’s law & positive & negative deviation from ideality. Concept of chemical potential, fugacity, activity co-efficient, Gibbs-Duhein, equation & its integrated forms.                                  [07 hrs]

Unit-2

Kinetics & Reactors: rate equations for simple first, second & third reactions, in batch reactors, their integrated forms in convention & concentration units, their integrated forms simulations, consecutive, chain & complex order, systems. Effect of different feed concentration. Reactors –batch, semi batch, continuous stirred flow & recycle. Types of simple first & second order reactions, steady state unsteady state reactors, Batch CSTR and PFR reactors in series and in parallel for different reactor combinations. Temperature control in flow and non-flow reactors and isothermal and adiabatic reactors.                                                                                            [08 hrs]

Unit-3

Equipment cost, operational and capitalized  costs, time, value of money, profitability, Application of these concepts to thermal insulation, rate of production, cyclic and semi cyclic operations like plate and frame filter press, continuous filtration, distillation, evaporators, modeling of heat exchanger, compressor.

Process identification: Purpose, time domain fitting of step test data, sine wave testing, pulse testing, step testing and on-line identification.                       [08 hrs]

Unit-4

Optimization techniques and applications: Single and multivariable optimization, line programming, sequential quadratic programming and reduce gradient optimization techniques and application. Introduction to geometric programming and dynamic programming.                                                                                       [07 hrs]

 Unit 5:

Intelligent/Advanced Process Controllers: Model Based controllers (self-tuning & Model reference Adaptive Controller), Optimal Controller using Kaman filter, Model Predictive Controller,                                                                                                  [06 hrs]

Unit 6:

Expert systems & expert controllers (AI based),Fuzzy Controllers, Artificial Neural networks & ANN Controller, Neuro-Fuzzy Control System, Neuro-MPC     

                                                                                                     [06 hrs]

Text Books

• Azriel Rosenfeld, Avinash C. Kak; Digital picture processing
• Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods; Digital image processing
• Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and Roger Boyle; Image processing, analysis, and machine vision

Reference Books

• F. G. Shinskey; Process Control Systems (TMH).
• B. G. Liptak; Process Control
• Krishna Kant; Computer based Industrial control (PHI)
• G. Stephanopolous;.Chemical Process Control
• W.L. Luyben; Process modeling; simulation & control for chemical engineers
• Edagar & Himmelblau; Optimization of Chemical process
• J. Malley; Practical Process Instrumentation & Control
• Deo Narsingh; System simulation with digital Computer