S009 - Practical Process Control

4.5 Days
Monday-Thursday 8am–4pm
Friday 8am-12pm (approximate end times)

9 Students (registration is first come, first serve)

Spartan Controls’ Practical Process Control course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the tools available to solve process control problems and how to apply them appropriately for robust, efficient control.

Including both classroom and hands-on lab-based exercises, this course gives students the ability to put their learning to practice on a simulated facility environment.  Learn how to model a process and tune a loop using a calculated approach to achieve the desired process response based on your control objective.

This course will also provide you with the ability to diagnose a poorly performing loop to determine if the cause is related to instrumentation, tuning or other process interactions.

• Control systems engineering terminology
• Instrumentation limitations and their effects on control loop performance
• Process Modelling
• Lambda Tuning for PID Controllers
• Tuning Self-Regulating Loops (e.g. Flow or Temperature)
• Tuning Integrating Loops (e.g. Tank Level)
• Advanced Regulatory Control Topics
  • Signal Filtering
  • Cascade Control
  • Ratio Control
  • Feedforward Control
  • Mid-Range Control
  • Split Range Control
  • Override Controls
  • Nonlinear PID Control
  • Gain Scheduling
  • Decoupling Systems
  • Decoupling by Tuning
• What is Advanced Process Control and when do I need it?
• Alarm management
• Control Project Management and Economics
• Control Loop Troubleshooting

Those interested in learning more on how to design PID control strategies and troubleshoot existing PID loops.

Completion of course 7009 and/or 7409

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