This book presents both basic and advanced concepts and techniques for the monitoring and control of chemical and biochemical processes. It also covers aspects of the implementation of these different robust techniques. The book offers a balanced view of the theoretical and practical issues of control systems and provides different cases to illustrate the controller and observer design procedures and their dynamic effects in the closed-loop.

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Control of Chemical Processes.- Nonisothermal Stirred-Tank Reactor with Irreversible Exothermic Reaction A ? B: 1. Modeling and Local Control.- Temperature Control Via Robust Compensation of Heat Generation: Isoparaffin/Olefin Alkylation.- Control Performance of Thermally Coupled Distillation Sequences with Unidirectional Flows.- Robust Tracking for Oscillatory Chemical Reactors.- Control and Diagnosis of Biological Processes.- Robust Nonlinear Observers for Bioprocesses: Application to Wastewater Treatment.- Robust Nonlinear Control of a Pilot-Scale Anaerobic Digester.- Advances in Diagnosis of Biological Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Plants.- Dynamics of Controlled Reactors.- Nonisothermal Stirred-Tank Reactor with Irreversible Exothermic Reaction A ? B: 2. Nonlinear Phenomena.- Oscillations in Controlled Processes: Two Experimental Study Cases.