Robust Process Control

Robust Process Control by Manfred Morari & Evanghelos Zafiriou


Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1989ISBN is 9780137821532 / 0137821530
Hardcover7.1 x 9.6 inches, 488 pages

A state-of-the-art study of computerized control of chemical processes used in industry, this book is for chemical engineering and industrial chemistry students involved in learning the micro-macro design of chemical process systems.
--------------------------Manfred Morari (born 1951) is a world-leading control theorist who has made pioneering contributions to the theory and applications of Model Predictive Control, Internal Model Control (IMC) and Hybrid Systems. His book on Robust Process Control is considered to be definitive text on the subject. He is currently Peter and Susanne Armstrong Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1977. Dr. Morari held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1977–1983, the California Institute of Technology from 1983-1991, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ETH Zurich. He is considered as pioneer in field of Model Predictive Control, Control of Hybrid Systems, Internal Model Control (IMC), and robust control.

In recognition of his research contributions he received numerous awards, among them the Donald P. Eckman Award and the John R. Ragazzini Award of the Automatic Control Council, the Allan P. Colburn Award and the Professional Progress Award of the AIChE, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the ASEE, Doctor Honoris Causa from Babes-Bolyai University, Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, and the IEEE Control Systems Field Award. He was also elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for analysis of the effects of design on process operability and the development of techniques for robust process control. Manfred Morari has held appointments with Exxon and ICI plc and serves on the technical advisory boards of several major corporations. He received in 2005 the IEEE Control Systems Award, and in 2011 the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.
-------------------------Evanghelos Zafiriou - Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Department and the Institute for Systems Research
Evanghelos Zafiriou received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National TechnicalUniversity in Athens, Greece, in 1983, where he was the recipient of several awards, including the Technical
Chamber of Greece award for having the highest GPA of any NTU student during his senior year. He obtaineda Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, in 1987. He then
joined the University of Maryland as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor withtenure in 1991. He is the co-director of the Chemical Process Systems Laboratory at ISR.
In 1990 he received the Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF and he has obtained fullindustrial matching funds. Dr. Zafiriou has lectured at several short courses for
industry nationally and internationally on topics including model predictive control, robust processcontrol and neural networks. In addition to numerous papers, he has co-authored a book on Robust Process
Control (Prentice-Hall, 1989). He has organized several sessions and meetings on these topics, including, inJune 1994, a Workshop of the Int. Federation of Aut. Control on the Integration of Process Design and
Control, for which he served as General Chair and Int. Program Committee Chair, as well as Proceedings Editor.He is a member of AIChE, IEEE, ACS and SIAM and a panel member and proposal reviewer for five NSF
Programs and the ACS. He has served as guest editor for two archival journals and is a reviewer for morethan a dozen journals. Dr. Zafiriou's interests are in robust and nonlinear process control, control-relevant identification and
run-to-run and feedback control in semiconductor manufacturing.