Oil and Gas Production Engineering home tutor

Industrial measurement and control overview, fundamentals, and systematic troubleshooting approach for technicians, engineers, and managers.

Course Objectives:

• Communicate latest trends in measurement and control
• Understand measurement and control in industrial processes
• Compare continuous, batch, and discrete control
• Interpret measurement and control terminology
• Compare temperature, pressure, level, and flow measurement methods and devices
• Understand feedback control loop operation and components
• Understand controller tuning concepts
• Compare control system architectures
• Apply systematic troubleshooting approach
• Verify, locate, and identify performance problems
• Troubleshoot control systems

Course Outline:

• Process Control Concepts: Continuous, Batch, Discrete Control, Measurement and Control Role in Industry
• Industrial Measurement Systems: Sensor Selection, Transmitters, Smart Transmitters
• Pressure Measurements: Concepts, Instruments, Differential Pressure Measurement
• Level Measurement: Concepts, Hydrostatic Head, Capacitance, Ultrasonic, by Weight
• Flow Measurement: Fluid Fundamentals, Methods and Concepts, Differential Head, Velocity, Mass Flowmeters
• Temperature Measurement: Concepts, Thermometers, Thermocouples, RTDs, Thermistors, Temperature Transmitters
• Industrial Process Control: Feedback Control, Components, PID Control, Final Control Elements, Tuning Concepts
• Trends in Control Technologies: Smart Components, Fieldbus
• Approaches to Troubleshooting: Purpose, Reasons, Logical Analysis, Verify, Identify, Repair and Test
• Single-Loop Feedback Control Troubleshooting: Measurement Concerns, Controller Operations, Signal Conditioners
• Multi-Loop Control Systems Troubleshooting: Ratio, Cascade, Three-Element Control
• Introduction to Digital Control Systems: Advantages, Digital Control, Supervisory DC, Supervisory Plus DDC
• Distributed Control Functions for Troubleshooting: Elements, Displays
• Start-up Concerns: Safety, Documentation, and tuning Review