Practical Guide to Instrumentation, Automation and Robotics

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Instrumentation 3. Control Theory and Process Controls 4. Automation 5. Process Design and Project Management 6. Process Safety and Human Factors 7. Regulations and Standards 8. New Technologies and Future Vision

Appendix A. Abbreviations B. Definitions C. Units D. Performance Terms E. References and Standards

Authors

Pankaj Goel Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Pankaj Goel is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focusses on Process Control, Automation and Abnormal situation management. He has published several journal papers, presented his research at conferences and is currently writing two book chapters. He has received a Process Safety Engineering Certificate from MKOPSC. Pankaj has served as teaching assistant at Texas A&M University. Pankaj has 11 years of professional experience. He has worked with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) for six years, where he worked as Maintenance Engineer and Project Engineer for a Greenfield project. Stratos Pistikopoulos Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Editor-in-Chief, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Dow Chemical Chair and Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Professor Pistikopoulos is the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and holds the Dow Chemical Chair in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (1991-2015) and the Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering (2002-2009). At Texas A&M Energy Institute, he is the Course Director of the Master of Science in Energy, the Director of the Data Sciences Core of the Texas A&M SUPERFUND research center, and the Texas A&M Principal Investigator of the RAPID Institute on process intensification, co-leading the Modeling & Simulation Focus Area.
He holds a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University and he worked with Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam before joining Imperial. He has authored or co-authored over 500 major research publications in the areas of modelling, control and optimization of process, energy and systems engineering applications, 15 books and 3 patents. He is a Fellow of IChemE and AIChE, and the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering. He was a former Chair of the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE. In 2007, Prof. Pistikopoulos was a co-recipient of the prestigious MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K.; in 2020, he received the Sargent Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in the UK. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of CAST/AIChE. He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in 2014 from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, and from the University of Pannonia in 2015. In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK. Aniruddha Datta Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Aniruddha Datta received the B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985, the M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1987 and the M.S. (Applied Mathematics) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California in 1991. In 1991, he joined Texas A&M University where he is currently the J. W. Runyon, Jr. '35 Professor II and Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering (CBGSE). His areas of interest include adaptive control, robust control, PID control and Genomic Signal Processing. He has authored or co-authored 5 books and over 200 journal and conference papers on these topics.