Course Outline
 

ENVE 416

Process Control and Environmental Modeling 

Fall 2008

M-W _4:10-6:00 pm 13-117

Office Hrs T 7:00- 11                                       Principal Instructor:                   Harold M. Cota

 

 

 

Textbook : Chemical and Bio-Process Control by James Riggs et al

3rd Edition

 

Recommended Text

Practical Guide to Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling by Turner and Schulze

 

Free pdf References  "Practical Process Control"  by D.J. Cooper ;"Industrial Source Complex (ISC3) and AERMOD Dispersion Model users instructions" - US EPA

 

 

 

TENTATIVE Course Schedule

WEEK

DATES

TOPIC

READING* 

1

9/22

9/24

Process Control Introduction

Environmental Modeling

 [ Chap 1-] , pg 3-21; 

  Gaussian Model

2

9/29

10/1

Control Hardware

Screening Models - Rusty's

[Chap 2],pg 35-75  

SCREEN- Rustry's Foundary

3

10/6

10/8

Dynamic Modeling

Refined Regulatory Models- ISC

 [Chap 3],pg 87-100,117-119,122          Workshop_2_

ISCST3 Rusty's

4

10/13

10/15

Laplace Transforms

Graphic Presentation of Results

[Chap 4], pg 133-15

ISC PRIME Google Earth

5

10/20

10/22

Transfer Functions

AERMOD and Rustys

[Chap 5],pg 157-168,171- 181 Workshop _6_

AERMOD Rusty

6

10/27

10/29

Dynamic Behavior

EXAM

[Chap 6],pg 201-220

MIDTERM EXAM

7

11/3

11/5

Ideal Systems

Hitco HRA

[Chap 7], pg 235-245,253-261 

AERMOD

8

11/10

11/12

P Control [First order,Second order and FOPDT]

AERMOD-HITCO-HRA -SURFER

[Chap 8], 279-297 

 

9

11/17

11/19

PI Control of FOPDT

HRA - HITCO HRA Strategy

  [Parts of Chap 8], see HW 

 

10

11/24

11/26

PID control of FOPDT

HOLIDAY

 [Parts of Chap 9], see HW
 

10

12/1

12/3

 Environmental System Control   Review

Class Presentations and Analysis

 

Hitco HRA

 

FINAL EXAM Monday- DECEMBER 8- 4:10 to 7 pm

*Note: Reading assignments may change as the quarter progresses.

Control Grade: Closed Book  Quizes 10 %  Homework 15 % Midterm 25 % Final 50 %

Modeling Grade: Open/Closed  Book Quizes = 5 % Homework 20 % Midterm 25%

                           Hitco[writen and oral] Presentation 25 % Final 25

Mark Reviewed  Mark Reviewed