This 40-hour module provides an introduction to instrumentation and major topics covered will be:

•  Safety, hand tools, calibrators
• Instrumentation Air Supply Systems/Identification Symbols
• Pressure Measurement
• Flow Measurement and Flow Instruments
• Level Measurement

 

This 40-hour module covers temperature instruments and measurement, analytical measurement and control, and control loops. 

• Overview of temperature measurement
• Thermowells – selection and use
• Temperature transmitters and switches
• Thermocouple vs resistance temperature detector (RTD)
• Overview of analytical measurements
• Types of probes
• Transmitters (pneumatic, electronic, and smart)
• Overview of control function considerations
• Control modes (on-off, modulating, PID control)
• Control types (feedback, cascade, ratio, feedforward)
• Controller tuning (automatic, manual)

 

This 40-hour module covers final control elements, PLC and DCS Systems, and analog and microprocessor-based controllers.

• Valve positioners overview
• Actuators and their functions
• Valves-sizing, types and differences
• VFD overview
• Process & Instrumentation Diagrams (P & IDs)
• Control system definition, logic diagrams
• Relays and ladder logic
• Communication and DCS basics
• Programming of PLCs using Boolean instructions
• Control system architecture
• PLC program documentation
• Engineering contractor scope of work, packaged equipment scope of work
• Single loop controllers
• Signal isolators and noisy signals
• Math and equations in single loop controllers
• Scaling different signals for process

 

This 20-hour module will cover valve positioners, control system prints and documentation, loop tuning, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). 

• Characteristics of valve positioners
• Pneumatic positioners
• Electric positioners
• Digital smart positioners
• Reading and interpreting electrical schematic and wiring diagrams
• Drawing electrical schematics and wiring diagrams
• P & ID – piping and instrumentation diagrams
• Loop sheets – field and control room
• Instrument list
• Open loop / closed loop
• Ziegler Nichols and Lambda tuning techniques
• Calculate initial PID settings
• Tune loops
• Typical pneumatic heating, ventilation and cooling control systems
• Typical electrical heating, ventilating and cooling systems
• Operation of typical pneumatic, electronic controllers used for HVAC

 

This 20-hour module builds on knowledge gained in Control Loops (Module 4) with programming PLC and DCS and will provide an introduction to Bus Systems, Industrial Process Control Systems, and Networking. 

• Foundation fieldbus
• Profibus PA and DP device net
• Creating function blocks, structured texts, and sequential function charts
• Linking different systems, HMI design and programming
• History behind communications
• Ethernet
• Modbus
• Cable testing (cat 5, cat 6, fiber optic)
• Cable building (cat 5, cat 6, fiber optic)
• Common practices for different cables
• Older systems communication