An Introduction to Process Control
The aim of this course is for you to learn the concepts of control techniques that can improve the quality of plant operation. You will be able to troubleshoot poor performance and set up your controls to give you the best performance the plant will allow.
Issues addressed
- Basic process control fundamentals
- Single loop controllers
- Multiloop (multiple single loop) control design
- Limits to controller performance
- Monitoring, detection and diagnosis
- Tuning for best performance
- Compensating for nonlinearities
What do you get?
- Real plant case studies and exercises
- Course notes developed by leading researchers and practitioners
- Interactive discussion groups
- Three-month demonstration license for Dynamic Simulation software
Who should enroll?
- Process engineers operating and troubleshooting plants
- Design engineers who want controllable plants
- Instrument and control engineers
Programme
Day 1 – Basic Process Control
- Measuring loop performance
- Feedback control refresher
- Tuning principles and practice
- Cascade and ratio control
Day 2 – Multiloop Control Design
- Locating measurement sensors
- Control valve characteristics and selection
- Compensating for nonlinearities
- Flowsheet placement of control loops
Day 3 – Practical multivariable controllers
- Feedforward control concepts and design
- Tuning feedforward controllers
- Predictive control concepts
- Designing a simple predictive controller