Course 9035      CEUs: 2.1

This course is for engineers and technicians responsible for process control design, implementation, and control performance.

Overview

This is a special combined 9032 and 9034 4-day course that teaches the practical principals of advanced regulatory controls and tuning techniques to achieve improvements that can exceed that of basic PID controls.

The course will examine many advanced regulatory control technologies commonly available today and help participants understand which technologies are best suited and how to appropriately apply them given specific process dynamics and conditions.

Formal lectures are amply populated with process examples and supported with hands-on lab exercises. Approximately 40% of the course is hands-on lab based workshops where students develop practical skills required to apply and tune advanced regulatory controls. A dynamic process simulator is used to simulate a variety of process unit dynamics and evaluate the benefits of different advanced regulatory control strategies.

Prerequisites

Participants should possess basic process control knowledge and experience with DCS control strategy configuration.

Topics

• Lambda Tuning for Self Regulating and Integrating processes
• Process and Disturbance Dynamics
• PID Algorithms – PID, PI, PI-D, I-PD, PD, P-D, ID, I-D, 2 degrees of freedom control 
• Cascade Control, Dynamic Feedforward
• Ratio Control, Override(selector) Control
• Split Range and Midrange Control
• Interactive Control Loops – Decoupling Control (2X2) and Lambda Tuning
• Deadtime Compensation (Smith Predictor)
• Adaptive Control (Gain Scheduling, Auto Tuning)
• Introduction to Model Predictive Control (Multiple Inputs Single Output)

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