Basic Industrial Measurement and Control

 

Description:  

This course is intended to introduce the student to the basic concepts of process instrumentation, measurements and automated control. The course discusses measurement technologies, instrumentation, control elements, simple feedback control, basic interlock and sequential control logic and provides an introduction to DCS and PLC based control system architectures.

 

Course Duration:  5 days

 

Course Topic Overview:

  • Continuous, Batch and Discrete industrial processes

  • Process documentation

  • Industrial measurement

  • Instrumentation

  • Pressure, level flow and temperature measurement

  • Analyzers and analytics

  • Control valves

  • Closed-loop control and the PID algorithm

  • Ratio control, feed-forward, cascade loops

  • Safety Interlock logic

  • Sequence control logic

  • Analog and Digital controllers

  • “Smart” instruments, bus standards

  • DCS and PLC system architecture

 

Detailed Daily agenda:

1.       Continuous, Batch and Discrete industrial processes

  • Continuous industrial processes

  • Batch processes

  • Discrete manufacturing

2.       Process documentation

  • P&ID drawings

  • ISA instrument standards

  • Wiring “loop” drawings

  • Interlock logic

3.       Industrial measurement

  • Physics of pressure, level and flow

  • Boyle’s law

4.       Instrumentation

  • Sensors

  • Transmitters

  • Wireless transmitters

5.       Measurement of process parameters

  • Level measurement technologies

  • Flow measurement technologies

  • Pressure measurement technologies

  • Temperature measurement technologies

6.       Analyzers and analytics

  • On-line and off-line

  • Common types

7.      Control valves

  • Valve types

  • Actuators

  • Modulated and discrete

  • Motor-operated valves

  • Safety valves

8.    Closed-loop control and the PID algorithm

  • Basic control loop theory

  • The PID algorithm

  • P, PI and PID variations

  • Self-tuning control algorithms

9.       Ratio control, feed-forward, cascade loops

  • Ratio plus Bias control

  • Time lags in control loops

  • Feed forward versus feedback

  • Cascaded control loops

10.  Safety Interlock logic

  • Boolean logic

  • Ladder logic

11.   Sequence control logic

  • Basic BATCH control

  • Control languages

  • Event, time and user initiated

12.   Analog and Digital controllers

 

13.   “Smart” instruments, bus standards

  • HART

  • Fieldbus

  • Profibus

14.   DCS and PLC system architectures

  • Distributed control systems

  • Typical architectures

  • PLC control systems

  • Proprietary data highways

  • Industrial Ethernet