Automatic Process Control Training
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Automatic Process Control Training Course
Introduction:
Globalization has placed increasing demands on modern process control in terms of quality, safety, flexibility, and costs. However, more efficient control can only be achieved through better measurement “when the process instrumentation provides the correct information. The field of process measurement and control is changing at a dramatic rate. Measurements and accuracies that would have been thought of as impossible to achieve are now commonplace. Further, for many years chemical measurement has remained the preserve of the analytical chemist. More and more, however, on-line analytical measurement is being applied in process control and is increasingly becoming the responsibility of the instrumentation and control technologist. This workshop, practical Process Instrumentation –Measurement and Sensors, is designed to provide engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical knowledge involved in the selection, application, installation, and commissioning of industrial instrumentation and on-line analytical instrumentation.
Course Objectives:
This workshop, PRACTICAL Process Control: Loop Tuning and Analysis, is designed to provide engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical understanding of the process loop and how this can be applied to optimize process control in terms of quality, safety, flexibility, and costs. On successful completion of this workshop delegates will be able to:
- Understand the major technologies used in the measurement of flow, temperature, pressure, and level
- Review the construction and operation of the most important process instruments
- Evaluate and select the appropriate instrumentation system
- Install process equipment correctly
- Optimize control with effective selection and installation of your process equipment
- Calibrate and troubleshoot instrumentation systems
- Isolate and rectify instrumentation faults
- Appreciate the basics of chemistry and how to read chemical formula
- Understand how analytical chemistry is applied in industry
- Review the construction and operation of the most important analytical instruments
- Value the science and capabilities of on-line analytical chemistry
- Troubleshoot problems in the measurement of pH,
- Conductivity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, chlorine, etc.
- Implement procedures for testing and calibration of analytical instruments
- Understand the basics of process analysis using IR spectroscopy and chromatography
Who Should Attend?
Professionals involved in designing, selecting, sizing, specifying, installing, testing, operating and maintaining process instrumentation and control systems:
- Automation Engineers
- Chemical Engineers
- Consulting Engineers
- Design Engineers
- Electrical Engineers
- Electricians
- Installation and Maintenance Technicians
- Instrument and Process Control Engineers and Technicians
- Instrument Fitters
- Maintenance Engineers
- Mechanical Engineers and Technicians
- Operations Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Process Operators
- Production Professionals
- Project Professionals
- System Integrators
- Professionals with little to moderate production facility design and/or operations background
- Other professionals who want a better understanding of the subject matter
Course Outlines:
Introduction to Sensors, Transducers and Instrumentation Systems
- Course schedule and layout
- Introduction to Sensors, Transducers and Instrumentation Systems
- Examples
- Terms and definitions associated with Instrumentation systems, including;
- Maximum error,
- Hysteresis,
- Repeatability,
- Sensitivity,
- Resolution,
- Span,
- Response time
- Examples
- Process Variables explained – Mass flow, Volumetric flow rate, Pressure, Viscosity, Turbidity
- Examples
Temperature and Strain Measurement Techniques (also begin practical activities)
- Temperature scales
- Devices; the principle of operation, application, and installation considerations of:
- Resistance temperature detectors
- Thermistors
- Thermocouples
- Radiation Pyrometers
- Principle of Strain Measurement – tension, compression, stress, strain, Youngs modulus
- Principle of operation, application and installation considerations
- Gauge types – the principle of operation and configurations
- Examples
- Practical activity – design and calibrate the process measurement system
Pressure and Flow Measurement
- Principles of Pressure measurement
- Devices; the principle of operation, application, and installation considerations of:
- Diaphragms
- Bellows
- Capacitive devices
- Fiber Optic pressure measurement techniques
- Principles of flow measurement
- Reynolds number
- Devices; the principle of operation, application and installation considerations of Invasive types:
- Coriolis Flowmeter
- Differential Pressure type flowmeters
- Orifice plate
- Venturi tube
- Flow nozzle
- Dall flow tube
- Devices; the principle of operation, application and installation considerations of Non-invasive types:
- Electromagnetic flowmeters
- Practical activity – design and calibrate process measurement system 2
Ultrasonic Techniques for non-Invasive Measurement and Optical Digital Encoders
