R. Russell Rhinehart
Professor and Amoco Chair
BACKGROUND:
Russ joined us in 1997 as Bartlett Chair and School
Head and returned to a faculty position in 2008. For
13 years between his MS and Ph.D., he worked in the
chemical industry, and for 12 years prior to joining
OSU, he had been a professor at Texas Tech
University.
Russ is co-author of
the text "Applied Engineering Statistics,"
Editor-in-Chief of "ISA Transactions," Treasurer for
the American Automatic Control Council, and a member
of several advisory boards. He is a fellow of
ISA-The International Society for Automation.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Process control,
optimization, modeling and simulation, kinetics,
transport, and unit operations lab.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Russ’s research interests are process and decision
automation, modeling and simulation, and data
analysis. With the availability of high performance
computers, the field of process control has now
evolved to mean the "automaton of process
management." His team is developing methods for
nonlinear control, process optimization, computer
perception, learning systems, autonomous control and
statistically based triggers; and they are
complementing theoretical analysis with experimental
demonstration. Through industrial partnerships, many
of these techniques have been transferred into
commercial practice.
Click here for more information on my research
interests.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Padmanabhan, V., and R.
R. Rhinehart, “Evaluation of a Novel Stopping
Criterion for Optimization”, Proceedings, IASTED
(International Association of Science and Technology
for Development) Conference, Paper 622-045, Quebec
City, May 26-28, 2008.
Rhinehart, R. R.,
Instrument Engineers' Handbook, Vol. II, Process
Control and Analysis, 4th Edition, B. Liptak,
Editor, Section 2.13, "Model-Based Control," pp.
209-213. And with H. L. Wade and F. G. Shinskey,
Section 2.3, "Control Modes - PID Variations," pp.
124-129, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, Boca Raton,
FL, 2005.
Puxty, G., M. Maeder,
R. R. Rhinehart, S. Alam, S. Moore, and P. J.
Gemperline, “Modeling of batch reactions with
in-situ spectroscopic measurements and calorimetry”,
Journal of Chemometrics, Vol 19, pp 329-340, 2005.
Li, Qing, J. R. Whiteley, and R. R. Rhinehart, “An
Automated Performance Monitor for Process
Controllers”, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 12,
No. 5, pp 537-553, 2004.
Ou, J., and R. R.
Rhinehart, “Grouped Neural Network Model Predictive
Control,” Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 11, No.
7, 2003, pp. 723-732.
Dhir, S., K. J. Morrow,
Jr., R. R. Rhinehart, and T. F. Wiesner, “Dynamic
Optimization of Hybridoma Growth in a Batch
Reactor,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol. 67,
No. 2, 2000, pp. 197-205.
