The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage
technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of
control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New
theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes,
computer methods, new applications, new philosophies . . ., new
challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports,
feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative
projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an
extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial
control for wider and rapid dissemination. Operating plant as close as
possible to constraint boundaries so often brings economic benefits in
industrial process control. This is the conundrum at the heart of this
monograph by Tommy Gravdahl and Olav Egeland on stall control for
compressors. Operation of the compressor closer to the surge line can
increase operational efficiency and flexibility The approach taken by
the authors follows the modern control system paradigm: -physical
understanding, detailed modelling and simulation studies and finally
control studies. The thoroughness of the presentation, bibliography and
appendices indicates that the volume has all the hallmarks of being a
classic for its subject. Despite the monograph's narrow technical
content, the techniques and insights presented should appeal to the
wider industrial control community as well as the gas turbine/compressor
specialist. M. J. Grimble and M. A.