Practical and Instrumentation for Automation and Process Control
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Practical and Instrumentation for Automation and Process Control 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. This workshop, Practical Instrumentation for Automation & Process Control, is designed to provide engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical knowledge involved in the selection, application, and installation and commissioning of industrial instrumentation and control valves.
Course Objectives:
Designed for both novice and experienced engineers and technicians, this workshop provides an insight into modern instrumentation practices covering the elements of:
- pressure measurement,
- level measurement,
- temperature measurement,
- flow measurement,
- control valves.
Throughout the workshop, participants will learn through active participation using exercises, questionnaires, and practical sessions covering:
- process calibration, span and zero
- sizing and selection calculations
- diagnostic tools
- 4 - 20 mA process simulation
- control valve sizing
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
Course Outlines:
Overview
- Purpose of instrumentation
- Location of control functions
- Variables measured and controlled
- Final control elements
- Instrument operating medium
Basic measurement concepts
- Measured and controlled variables
- Performance terms and specifications
- Measurement terminology
- P&ID symbols
Flow measurement
- Basic fluid properties
- Reynolds number
- Flow measurement and rangeability
- Positive Displacement Meters
- Inferential meters
- Turbine meters
- Impeller meters
- Oscillatory Flow Meters
- Differential Pressure Meters
- Target meters
- Pitot tube
- Variable Area Meters
- Electromagnetic Flowmeters
- Ultrasonic Flowmeters
- Doppler method
- Transit time meter
- Clamp on instruments
- Mass Flow Measurement
- Coriolis meters
- Thermal mass meters
- Open Channel Flow
Temperature measurement
- Basic principles
- Scales
- Expansion systems
- Thermocouples
- Resistance thermometry
- Thermistors
- Radiation the
- Rmometry
- Installation considerations
Pressure measurement
- Basic principles
- Manometers
- Dead weight testers
Bourdon tubes
- Bellow elements
- Diaphragm elements
- Electrical displacement sensors
Level measurement
- Basic principles
- Visual gauging systems
- Float systems
- Displacement systems
- Conductive level detection
- Capacitive level measurement
- Hydrostatic head measurement
- Ultrasonic level measurement
- Radar gauging
- Nuclear level measurement
- Point level measurement
- Load cells
Control valves
- Basic
