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Process control has increased in importance in the process industries over the past 30 years, driven by global competition, rapidly changing economic conditions, more stringent environmental and safety regulations, and the need for more flexible yet more complex processes to manufacture high value-added products. A modern undergraduate course in chemical process control should reflect the diverse milieu of process control theory and applications and encompass process dynamics, computer simulation, measurement and control hardware, feedback control, and advanced control strategies. This textbook has been organized so that the instructor can cover the basic material while having the flexibility to pursue selected topics in the process control field. The book provides the basics for 20 to 30 weeks of instruction, covering a single course or a sequence of courses at the undergraduate or first-year graduate levels. The text is divided into reasonably short chapters to make the book more readable and to enhance its use in a modular fashion. This organization allows the student to skip some chapters without a loss of continuity.