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Course Methodology

This course offers practical exercises that will allow all participants to use the knowledge they gained to demonstrate their skills in troubleshooting a process problem.

Participants will be immersed into an interactive environment where they will learn how to:

  1. Perform calculations of turn down ratio required for a specific application

  2. Provide measurement solutions

  3. Calculate the given current output for any given input to the transmitter

  4. Calculate the time constant for a process

  5. Arrive at base values for the parameters of proportional, integral and derivative values

Course Objectives

This course is designed for instrumentation and control personnel including general maintenance personnel, plant managers and supervisors, control and instrumentation technicians and engineers, automation engineers, electricians and general engineers.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  1. Operate the most common measuring process parameters

  2. Demonstrate the ability to properly set up a transmitter to measure pressure, flow, level and temperature

  3. Define and apply control concepts including self-regulating and non-self-regulating processes, positive/negative feedback and process time constant

  4. Outline the major control strategies and identify which one to apply in order to effectively operate and troubleshoot a process

  5. Use the 7-step systematic troubleshooting process to logically troubleshoot a system regardless of the type of system

Level 1

  • Introduction

  • Process Control

  • Control loop

  • Process Facility Considerations

  • Units and Standards

  • Instrument Parameters

  • Resistance

  • Capacitance

  • Inductance

  • Circuits With R,L, and C

  • RC Filters

  • AC Bridges

  • Magnetic Forces

  • Analog Circuits

  • Digital Circuits

Level 2

  • Pressure

  • Level

  • Flow

  • Temperature and Heat

  • Humidity, Density, Viscosity, and PH

  • Position and Motion Sensing

  • Weighing Scale

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Level 3

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  • Pneumatic Transmission

  • Analog Transmission

  • Digital Transmission

  • Digital to Analog Conversion

  • Control Modes

  • Implementation of Control Loops

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