Process Control for Noncontrol Engineers March 22, 2009

INTRODUCTION

* Basic concepts
* Definitions
* Overview of pressure, level, temperature and flow
* Overview of valves

PRESSURE MEASUREMENT

* Principles
* Sources
* Transducers and elements
* Specifications
* Installation issues

LEVEL MEASUREMENT

* Principles
* Simple sight glasses
* Buoyancy tape systems
* Hydrostatic pressure
* Ultrasonic measurement
* Radiation measurement
* Electrical measurement
* Density measurement
* Installation issues

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT

* Principles
* Thermocouples
* Resistance temperature detectors
* Thermistors
* Liquid-in-glass, filled, bimetallic
* Pyrometers
* Installation issues

FLOW MEASUREMENT

* Principles
* Differential pressure flowmeters
* Open channel flow measurement
* Oscillatory flow measurement
* Magnetic flow measurement
* Positive displacement
* Ultrasonic flow measurement
* Mass flow measurement
* Installation issues

CONTROL VALVES

* Principles
* Control valve types
* Selection
* Characteristics / trim
* Noise and cavitation
* Actuators and positioners
* Installation issues

BASIC PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM

* Open Loop
* Closed Loop, feedback loop
* On-off Controllers
* Controller Proportional
* Controller Proportional + Integral
* Controller Proportional + Integral + Derivative

TUNING PROCESS CONTROL

* Methode Cohen Coon
* Methode Ziegler and Nichols
* Optimum setting

CONTROL STARTEGY

Introductions to:

* Control Feed-forward
* Ratio Control
* Override Control
* Batch Control
* Adaptive Control System
* Adavanced Process Control

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