Course Objectives

To gain a detailed understanding of the measuring equipment.

Course Description

This course will cover the practical application of process control techniques including basic and advanced regulatory control strategy selection, implementation and tuning or optimum process benefit.

Who Should Attend

This course is targeted at electrical technicians.

Pre-Requisites

All Attendees should have a sound power generation and electrical background.

Course Outcome

At the end of this course you will be able to understand instrumentation.

Course Outline

Day 1

• Introduction
• Instrumentation Introduction
  • Background
  • Benefits of control
  • Incentives for control
  • Symbols and terminology

Day 2

• Process Characteristics
  • Steady State Response
  • Effect of disturbances
  • Dynamic response
  • Process gain
  • Lag
  • Dead time
  • Order
  • Approximate response
  • Linearity

Day 3

• Control Loop Characteristic
  • Flow loops
  • Temperature loops
  • Pressure loops
  • Level loops

Day 4

• Feedback Control
  • On/Off Control
  • Modulating control
  • Proportional mode
  • Integral mode (Reset)
  • Derivative mode
  • Commercial PID
  • Digital control algorithms

Day 5

• Feedback Controller Tuning:
  • Tuning criteria
  • Trail and error/tuning
  • Open loop tuning
  • Closed loop tuning
  • Improving “as found”
  • Practical guideline
  • Adaptive tuning 
• Course Review and Feedback

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