1.4 Control Textbooks and Journals

There are a large number of undergraduate control textbooks that focus on control-system design and theory. The following books include an introduction to process modeling and dynamics, in addition to control system design.

Coughanowr, D.R., Process Systems Analysis and Control, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York (1991).

Luyben, M.L., and W.L. Luyben, Essentials of Process Control, McGraw-Hill, New York (1997).

Luyben, W.L., Process Modeling Simulation and Control for Chemical Engineers, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York (1990).

Marlin, T.E., Process Control: Designing Processes and Control Systems for Dynamic Performance, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York (2000).

Ogunnaike, B.A., and W.H. Ray, Process Dynamics, Modeling and Control, Oxford, New York (1994).

Riggs, J.B., Chemical Process Control, Ferret Publishing, Lubbock, Texas (1999).

Seborg, D.E., T.F. Edgar, and D.A. Mellichamp, Process Dynamics and Control, Wiley, New York (1989).

Smith, C.A., and A.B. Corripio, Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control, 2nd ed. Wiley, New York (1997).

Stephanopoulos, G., Chemical Process Control, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1984).

Svrcek, W.Y., D.P. Mahoney, and B.R. Young, A Real-Time Approach to Process Control, Wiley, Chichester (2000).

The following books are generally more applied, with specific control applications detailed.

Levine, W.S. (ed.), The Control Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (1996).

Liptak, B.G., and K.Venczel (eds.), Instrument Engineers Handbook, Process Control Volume, Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA (1985).

Luyben, W.L., B.D. Tyreus, and M.L. Luyben, Plantwide Process Control, McGraw-Hill, New York (1999).

Schork, F.J., Deshpande, P.B., and K.W. Leffew, Control of Polymerization Reactors, Marcel Dekker, New York (1993).

Shinskey, F.G., Distillation Control, McGraw-Hill, New York (1977).

Shunta, J.P., Achieving World Class Manufacturing Through Process Control, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (1995).

The following sources often provide interesting process control problems and solutions.

Advances in Instrumentation and Control (ISA Annual Conference)

American Control Conference (ACC) Proceedings—yearly

Chemical Engineering Magazine (McGraw-Hill)—monthly

Chemical Engineering Progress—monthly

Control Engineering Practice (an IFAC Journal)

Hydrocarbon Processing (petroleum refining and petrochemicals)—monthly

Instrumentation Technology (InTech, an instrumentation industry magazine)—monthly

IEEE Control Systems Magazine—bimonthly

ISA (Instrument Society of America) Transactions

TAPPI Journal (pulp and paper industry) —monthly

The following sources tend to be more theoretical but often have useful control-related articles.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Journal

Automatica (Journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC)

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering Communications

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Chemical Engineering Science

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Proceedings—yearly

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (I&EC Research)

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology

International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Proceedings

International Journal of Control

International Journal of Systems Sciences

Journal of Process Control

Proceedings of the IEE (part D, Control Theory and Applications)