Duration
4.5 Days
Monday-Thursday 8am–4pm
Friday 8am-12pm (approximate end times)
Max Capacity
9 Students (registration is first come, first serve)
Overview
Spartan Controls’ Practical Process Control course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the tools available to solve process control problems and how to apply them appropriately for robust, efficient control.
Including both classroom and hands-on lab-based exercises, this course gives students the ability to put their learning to practice on a simulated facility environment. Learn how to model a process and tune a loop using a calculated approach to achieve the desired process response based on your control objective.
This course will also provide you with the ability to diagnose a poorly performing loop to determine if the cause is related to instrumentation, tuning or other process interactions.
Topics:
- Control systems engineering terminology
- Instrumentation limitations and their effects on control loop performance
- Process Modelling
- Lambda Tuning for PID Controllers
- Tuning Self-Regulating Loops (e.g. Flow or Temperature)
- Tuning Integrating Loops (e.g. Tank Level)
- Advanced Regulatory Control Topics
- Signal Filtering
- Cascade Control
- Ratio Control
- Feedforward Control
- Mid-Range Control
- Split Range Control
- Override Controls
- Nonlinear PID Control
- Gain Scheduling
- Decoupling Systems
- Decoupling by Tuning
- What is Advanced Process Control and when do I need it?
- Alarm management
- Control Project Management and Economics
- Control Loop Troubleshooting
Audience
Those interested in learning more on how to design PID control strategies and troubleshoot existing PID loops.
Prerequisites
Completion of course 7009 and/or 7409
