Health and safety at work: types of factory environment and their physiological and
psychological risks. Current legislation in the area of employer and employee
liability. Codes of practice. The role of management and unions in safety.
Introduction to process control: basic control modes e.g. P, PI, PID; control system
architecture and dynamic behaviour for SISO processes; controller tuning; control
system hierarchies for chemical/biochemical processing plants.
Equipment and instrumentation used in chemical and biochemical processing
operations: sensing and measurement; signal transmission; controllers; final
control elements.
Process modelling; application of material and energy balances in the formulation of
quantitative process models; process characteristics and dynamic response behaviour
of first and second order systems.