Industrial Process Control (EE452)

Assignment 3

Question-1
A second-order process with one pole at the origin has the transfer function.

Find the output as a function of time, for a unit step input change. Sketch the
expected behavior.
Question-2
For the following second-order process with numerator dynamics, solve for
the time-domain output response to a step input change of magnitude
Δu at t =0.

For kp = 1°C/Lpm, τ1 = 3 min, τ2 = 15 min, τn = 20 min find the peak temperature

and the time that it occurs.
Question-3
Consider the following state-space model!
Which has the following input-output transfer function relationship?

For a unit step change in the input, u(s) = 1/s:

1. Find the output at t=0 and as t approaches infinity, using the initial and
final value theorems.
2. Find the time domain solution, y(t)
3. Sketch the time domain behavior of y(t)
4. Are your results for i, ii, and iii consistent?
Question-4
As a process engineer with the Complex Pole Corporation, you are assigned
a unit with an exothermic chemical reactor. In order to learn more about the
dynamics of the process, you decide to make a step change in the input
variable, the coolant temperature, from 10°C to 15°C. Assume that the
reactor was initially at a steady state. You obtain the following plot for the
output variable, which is reactor temperature (notice that the reactor
temperature is in °F). Use Figure below to help answer the following
questions.

1. What is the value of the process gain? (show units)

2. What is the value of τ? (show units)
3. What is the value of ζ? (show units)
4. What is the decay ratio?
5. What is the period of oscillation? (show units)
Write the second-order transfer function