A Real-Time Approach to Process Control  3rd Edition brings together introductory process control education and real industry practice. Avoiding the use of complex and highly mathematical techniques, the book focuses instead on the more practical and applied time-domain techniques derived from modern process simulation. The book introduces all of the applied fundamentals of process control from instrumentation to process dynamics, PID loops and tuning, to distillation, multi-loop and plant-wide control. In addition, it provides students with a practical introduction to modern process control focusing on simulation to develop process control designs. It also enables the reader to understand and use a number of commercially available software packages. The text carefully balances theory and practice by offering students readings and lecture materials along with hands-on workshops that provide a 'virtual' process on which to experiment and from which to learn modern, real time control strategy development. As well as a general updating of the book specific changes include: Adding material on a new multivariable control measure developed by the authors Update to include wireless and web-base technologies A new chapter on model predictive control  (MPC) Updating the workshops to a new commercial simulator that is freely distributed for academic study (VMGSim) New coverage of bio-related systems Companion website to include Powerpoint slides, sample software, and solutions to Workshop problems