Davis, C. J., & Hickman, W. L., & Tzouanas, V. (2012, June), Design and Control of an Air Heater Process  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21146

\bibitem{asee_peer_21146}
  Davis, C. J., \& Hickman, W. L., \& Tzouanas, V. (2012, June), \emph{Design and Control of an Air Heater Process}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21146

Corey Jamail Davis, Wayland L. Hickman, and Vassilios Tzouanas.  "Design and Control of an Air Heater Process".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21146 Internet.  07 Jul, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_21146}
  Corey Jamail Davis, Wayland L. Hickman, and Vassilios Tzouanas.
  "Design and Control of an Air Heater Process".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21146 Internet.  07 Jul, 2025

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AB  -                      Design and Control of an Air Heater Process                                            AbstractThe paper is concerned with the design of an air heater and experimental evaluation of feedbackand feed forward control structures to achieve a desired heater outlet temperature by adjustingthe heat load in the presence of a measured air flow disturbance. It was found that a combinedfeedback/feed forward control structure outperforms the simpler feedback only control structure.The impact of variable time delays on the control performance is demonstrated and addressedusing a Smith predictor. This experimental study entails the design of the air heater andassociated instrumentation, real time data acquisition and control in LABView, processmodeling, controller design, and evaluation of the performance of different control structures in aclosed loop manner. This work was performed as partial fulfillment of the requirements of theSenior Capstone Project course in controls and instrumentation. Student experiences aresummarized and the need for effective project management methods is emphasized.Note: this student led paper is to be considered for poster presentation.
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