This professional course on instrumentation, automation and process contains the elaborated concepts on three engineering fields. These are instrumentation engineering, automation engineering and process engineering. Instrumentation refers to the devices and instruments that are used in various processes; automation refers to the automatic working of instruments, while process engineering refers to the study of processes that are carried out in any type of industry through industrial applications.
This course includes content covering the fundamentals and selection criteria of measuring devices; like pressure transducers, level transducers, temperature transducers and flow measurements. The piping & instrument diagram and symbols for the instrumentation devices are listed and selection criteria are discussed.
In addition to these technical concepts, computer programming and simulation are also discussed with reference to computer simulation being carried out using a LogixPro 500 simulator.
This course is suitable for technical professionals who would like to gain technical as well as practical knowledge on instrumentation, process and automation systems.
WHO SHOULD COMPLETE THIS COURSE
- Instrumentation engineers
- Process engineers
- Design technicians
- Consulting Engineers
- Engineering managers
- Project Engineer
COURSE OUTLINE
BASIC MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS
- Performance terms and specifications – sensitivity and range and span
- Accuracy
- Precision
- Repeatability
- Range of operation
- Difference bet analog and digital
ADVANCED MEASUREMENT
- Performance terms and specifications – linearity
- Hysteresis response
- Control loop components
- Measuring instruments and control valves as part of the overall control system
P&ID SYMBOLS
- Tag description
- P&ID symbols
- Instrumentation representation on flow diagrams
- Mix of instrument signals
- Letter codes and balloon symbols
- P&ID symbols for transducers and others
SELECTION CRITERIA
- Effects of selection criteria
- Instrument selection
- Flow applications
FUNDAMENTALS OF PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Types- static pressure, dynamic pressure and total pressure
- Technical terms
PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS
- Mechanical – manometer
- Bourdon tube
- Diaphragm
- PRESSURE SENSORS
- Electrical – strain gauge
- Piezoelectric
- Capacitance
- LVDT
- Optical
PRINCIPLES OF LEVEL MEASUREMENT
- Point source- by visual inspection
- Gauging rod method
- Buoyancy tape systems
- Field effect level detection
- Gravimetric
- Bubbler tube
- Pressure gauge to measure level
- Installation considerations
CONTINUOUS SOURCE
- Magnetic float
- Time of flight measurement
- Echo measurement
- Selection considerations
- Continuous - pressure head
- Capacitance/resistance
- Fiscal measurement
CONTACT TYPE DEVICES – THERMOCOUPLES
- Concepts
- Average of temperatures
- J type thermocouple
- Voltage curves
- RTDs
- Concept
- PT100 resistance table
THERMISTORS AND OTHER DEVICES
- Selection and sizing
- Typical packaging
- Filled devices
- Non-contact pyrometer type
FUNDAMENTALS OF FLOW MEASUREMENT
- Basic terms and concepts
- Flow parameters – velocity
- Volumetric flow and mass flow
- Flow types
- Importance of Reynolds number
- Differential pressure flow meters
- Bernoulli’s equations
ORIFICE PLATE
- Installation
- Concentric orifice
- Application limitations
OTHER MEASURING DEVICES
- Venturimeter
- Pitot tube
- Flow over a weir
- Rotameter
- Vortex meter
- Construction of swirl meter
- Turbine flow meter
- Magnetic flow meter
- Ultrasonic measurement,
- Positive displacement – rotating vane, rotating lobe meter
- Positive displacement meter
- Mass flow rate meter
- Coriolis meter construction
- Straight through meter
- Thermal mass flow meter
CONTROL VALVES
- Introduction Control valve, classification, principles, Application function – isolation, ON-OFF valves
- Flow control, directional control, protection, overpressure
- Sliding stem valves: Plug, Globe, Cage valves, Operating conditions
- Rotary valves: butterfly, ball valves, flow characteristics
- Noise and cavitations: sources of noise, principles of cavitations and its effects
CONTROL VALVES FLOW CHARACTERISTICS
- Selection and Sizing
- Effective pressure drop
- Control valve characteristics/trim
- Components of a process control loop
PRINCIPLE OF LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS
- Block diagram for summation and gain
- Direct & reverse controllers
- Feed forward control loop
- Cascade control
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PROCESSES OF LOOP CONTROL
- First order process and response
- Second order process and response
CLOSED LOOP PID
- Control types
- Objectives of tuning
NEW SMART INSTRUMENT AND FIELD BUS
- Fundamental concepts
- Field bus to typical control system
HYBRID TECHNIQUE – HART
- Digital messages
- Sources of noise
- Earthling configurations
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
- Data control and transfer protocol
- RS-423, RS-422, RS-432, RS-485
- Fiber optics
- Network topology - star, ring and bus
- Media access control methods
PLC SYSTEMS
- PLC block diagram and configuration
- Discrete DC/AC Input and Output module
- Analog input module
FUNDAMENTALS OF PLC
- PLC programming simulator
- Programming setup, languages and concept
- Function block diagram
- Instruction list
- Structured text language
