Intermediate liquid storage tanks (surge tanks) are commonly installed between processing areas of the plant. Under normal operating conditions, these storage buffers allow each process area to be operated independently of the other process areas. Any imbalance in the area production rates within a plant will be reflected by a change in level of the …
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Dec
20
Process Characterization – Self-regulating Process
Process characterization is the identification of the dynamic responses of a process to changes in its inputs. In Chapter 9 of Control Loop Foundation, we address process characterization. In some cases the process response may be characterized as a pure gain, lag, or deatime. However, many of the basic thermal and physical mechanisms reflected in …