Publisher's Synopsis
An up-to-date account of current practices, methods and techniques in the use of modern automatic control systems in petroleum and water related industries. Subject areas covered include modelling, estimation and identification; simulation; optimization; process control and instrumentation methods; modernization of petroleum and petrochemical complexes; system performance and reliability analysis, with special emphasis given to methodological development and practical applications such as adaptive and hierarchical control systems. Contains approximately 32 papers.
