# Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls

- By: Peter J. Woolf
- Publisher: openmichigan
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/chemical-process-dynamics-and-controls)
- Licence: Attribution
- PDF: https://ia601905.us.archive.org/24/items/ChemicalProcessDynamicsAndControls/ChemicalProcessDynamicsAndControls.pdf

Process controls is a mixture between the statistics and engineering discipline that deals with the mechanism, architectures, and algorithms for controlling a process. Some examples of controlled processes are: •Controlling the temperature of a water stream by controlling the amount of steam added to the shell of a heat exchanger. •Operating a jacketed reactor isothermally by controlling the mixture of cold water and steam that flows through the jacket of a jacketed reactor. •Maintaining a set ratio of reactants to be added to a reactor by controlling their flow rates. •Controlling the height of fluid in a tank to ensure that it does not overflow.