Description
This course is designed to provide participants with the basic knowledge of process measurement and automatic control.
Participants
Operators, technicians and engineers who want to learn the principles of process measurement and control.
Maximum Class Size
Fifteen (15)
Prerequisites
Nil.
Course Contents
| DAY |
CONTENT |
| 1st |
Basic principles of automatic control
Terminology and symbols
Final control element and valve positioner
Principles of current to pneumatic converter
Laboratory work: Stripping and assembly of valves
|
| 2nd |
Pressure measurement
Level measurement
Flow measurement
Laboratory work: Experiments on pressure
|
| 3rd |
Temperature measurement
pH measurement
Conductivity measurement
Laboratory work: Experiments on temperature
|
| 4th |
Process characteristics
Automatic process control
Controller action – open loop
Modes of control
Laboratory work: Process characteristics, controller action – open loop
|
| 5th |
Controller action – closed loop
Control criteria
Controller tuning
Laboratory work: PID controller response, optimum PID setting
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