An interactive learning of process control through simulation of heat exchanger using matlab Simulink
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Date
2018-06
Authors
Suthasheny Perumal
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Abstract
Process engineer career is gaining importance in almost every industry worldwide.
This is because, control system plays a huge role in every industry especially in many
engineering industries. As such, our country requires competent process engineers to
maintain the desired production capacity and at the same time ensure safety in a plant.
However, many university students have little or no interest in learning process control
subject.. As such, many students restrict themselves from learning process control deeper
as they have a mindset that process control is difficult to understand and boring. In this
work, students‟ opinions regarding process control subject was identified through a mixed mode assessment method. The results obtained from the survey are analyzed. It shows that
majority of the students prefer real-time simulation to be introduced in the teaching method
of process control for them to understand process control better. Hence, a real-time virtual
laboratory has been created for the simulation of heat exchanger using MATLAB
Simulink. The students were asked to work on the simulation program and a post-simulation survey was created to obtain students‟ feedback on the simulation program. The
results from the survey show that 4 out of 9 participants with process control background
and 5 out of 8 participants without process control background are able to score well in the
quiz questions which were prepared from to test their understandings on this simulation
programme.