Transient state
A system is said to be transient or in a transient state when a process variable or variables have been changed and the system has not yet reached a steady state. The time taken for the circuit to change from one steady state to another steady state is called the transient time.
Examples
Chemical Engineering
When a chemical reactor is being brought into operation, the concentrations, temperatures, species compositions, and reaction rates are changing with time until operation reaches its nominal process variables.
Electrical engineering
When a switch is flipped in an appropriate electrical circuit containing a capacitor or inductor, the component draws out the resulting change in voltage or current (respectively), causing the system to take a substantial amount of time to reach a new steady state.
We can define a transient by saying that when a quantity is at rest or in uniform motion and a change in time takes place , changing the existing state , a transient has taken place.
When a SCR (four-layer PNPN Device) is switched on we have the problem of transients occurring as a result of high values of current and voltage oscillating around the point before normal levels are obtained again. Filtering can prevent damage to SCR by means of LC filters, zener diodes, trans-zorps, and varistors.[1]
See also
- Attractor
- Carrying capacity
- Control theory
- Dynamical system
- Ecological footprint
- Economic growth
- Engine test stand
- Equilibrium point
- List of types of equilibrium
- Evolutionary economics
- Growth curve
- Herman Daly
- Homeostasis
- Lead-lag compensator
- Limit cycle
- Limits to Growth
- Population dynamics
- Race condition
- Simulation
- State function
- Steady state
- Steady state economy
- Steady State theory
- Systems theory
- Thermodynamic equilibrium
- Transient modelling
- Transient response
References
- Industrial Electronics N3 , J Kraft