Course 9030      CEUs: 2.8

This course is for engineers, or persons with equivalent math and theoretical background, who have responsibility for process control design and implementation, process optimization,or process design and troubleshooting.

Overview

Process Dynamics, Control and Tuning Fundamentals (Process Control for Engineers I) is a 4-day course that provides the fundamental theory governing process dynamic behavior, control system operation and controller tuning. Course material is based on experience gained in process variability optimization work and is based on modern control engineering concepts coupled with practical process application knowledge. This course presents a systematic approach to optimizing the control of a process unit operation in order to manufacture uniform product more efficiently. The course uses formal lectures with hands-on lab exercises. High fidelity process simulators are used as the basis for the labs and simulation analysis.

Prerequisites

An engineering degree or equivalent knowledge and functionality in the mathematics required to understand the concepts listed in "topics".

Topics

• Process Dynamics - Self Regulating and Integrating
• First Order Process Model
• Second Order Process Model
• Integrating Process Model
• Process & Control Nonlinearity
• Feedback Control & PID Controllers
• QAD Tuning & Lambda Tuning
• Setpoint & Load Response
• Frequency Response - Bode Plots
• Tuning Interactive Control Loops
• Coordinated Lambda Tuning for Unit Optimization