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Assignment One MSE458

The document outlines an assignment for MSE 458: Process Dynamics and Control, due on May 29, 2023. It includes questions on control systems, requiring students to determine the truth of various statements about feedback and feedforward control, as well as to create schematic diagrams for a home heating system and a distillation column. Additionally, it asks students to identify flow control loops as either feedback or feedforward systems with justifications.

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Assignment One MSE458

The document outlines an assignment for MSE 458: Process Dynamics and Control, due on May 29, 2023. It includes questions on control systems, requiring students to determine the truth of various statements about feedback and feedforward control, as well as to create schematic diagrams for a home heating system and a distillation column. Additionally, it asks students to identify flow control loops as either feedback or feedforward systems with justifications.

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MSE 458: Process Dynamics and Control Second Semester, 2022/2023

22nd May,2023

Assignment One
Due on the 29th of May, 2023 latest by 8:00 am to the Teaching Assistants

1. Which of the following statements are true or False?


(In each case, elaborate why the statement is true or false to gain full marks)
(a) Feedback and feedforward control both require a measured variable.
(b) The process variable to be controlled is measured in feedback control.
(c) Feedforward control can be perfect in the theoretical sense that the controller can take action via the
manipulated variable even while the controlled variable remains equal to its desired value.
(d) Feedforward control can provide perfect control; that is, the output can be kept at its desired value, even
with an imperfect process model.
(e) Feedback control will always take action regardless of the accuracy of any process model that was used to
design it and the source of a disturbance.

2. Consider a home heating system consisting of a natural gas-fired furnace and a thermostat. In this case the
process consists of the interior space to be heated. The thermostat contains both the measuring element and the
controller. The furnace is either on (heating) or off. Draw a schematic diagram for this control system. On your
diagram, identify the controlled variables, manipulated variables, and disturbance variables. Be sure to include
several possible sources of disturbances that can affect room temperature.

3.
MSE 458: Process Dynamics and Control Second Semester, 2022/2023
22nd May,2023

The distillation column shown in the drawing is used to distill a binary mixture. Symbols x, y, and z denote
mole fractions of the more volatile component, while B, D, R, and F represent molar flow rates. It is desired to
control distillate composition y despite disturbances in feed flow rate F. All flow rates can be measured and
manipulated with the exception of F, which can only be measured. A composition analyzer provides
measurements of y.
(a) Propose a feedback control method and sketch the schematic diagram.
(b) Suggest a feedforward control method and sketch the schematic diagram.

4. Two flow control loops are shown in the drawing. Indicate whether each system is either feedback or a
feedforward control system. Justify your answer. It can be assumed that the distance between the flow
transmitter (FT) and the control valve is quite small in each system.

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