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GATE 2024 BT – Question 12

Fundamentals of Biological Engineering · Process Control: Measurement devices, valves, first and second order systems, feedback and feed forward control, P, I and D controllers and tuning · 1 mark · Multiple choice

The transfer function of a process is $G(s) = rac{K_p}{ au_p s + 1}$, where $K_p$ is the gain and $ au_p$ is the time constant. This is a ________ process.

  1. first order
  2. multi-capacity
  3. purely capacitive
  4. second order

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Correct answer: (A) first order

Explanation

A transfer function with a first-degree polynomial in $s$ in the denominator is a first-order process.