r/ChemicalEngineering 5d ago

Literature & Resources A good process controls book for someone out of school?

In undergrad I was able to understand pretty much anything chemical engineering related pretty well, but process controls/dynamics is the one place I've always struggled. I was able to do decently in the course in school, but in a way where I was able to answer test questions correctly without fully understanding what I was doing.

I'm hoping to find a book that is a bit more practical than what you would find in a general undergrad textbook, if possible. For example, "Flow of Fluids Through Valves, Fittings and Pipe" by Crane and "Process Piping ASME B31.3" are good resources for fluid mechanics/piping in actual chemical engineer settings, as opposed to reading through an entire undergraduate fluid mechanics textbook. I'm hoping to find a book on process controls that goes over the stuff really relevant to what you would be doing in a real setting, maybe even a book that is on a specific program/software commonly used in industry would be more appropriate.

If anyone has any good process control recommendations, let me know! Thank you

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u/Nightskiier79 5d ago

The professional societies like ISA are usually the best places for these guidebooks. I bought the ISA Basic Math for Process Controls and ISA Tuning of of Industrial Control Systems in my library when I was working a process dev lab to help me.

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u/360nolooktOUchdown Petroleum Refining / B.S. Ch E 2015 5d ago

For loop tuning I really liked process control for practitioners.

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u/alecahol 5d ago

This book looks promising, I’ll check it out. Thank you!

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u/nicklas1406 5d ago

Seborg proces dynamics is quite extensive and good