Process Control Engineering, Strategies and Application Technology Course

The course exposes participants to the various process control loop and their characteristics, proper modes selection, configuration; enhanced pid control system; and multivariable loop. Participants will be taught on basic tuning, simple and most difficult control application in the plants and how to overcome some difficult process. 

Target group 

• Plant or process supervisors, team leaders, instrument engineers, lectures and others who need to upgrade the knowledge and a comprehensive review or new experience of advanced process control.

Targeted industry/industries

• Oil and gas industries, power plant, petrochemical plant, pump oil plant, food industries and others related industries.

Certification

• This course can be certified for the continuing professional development program likes the program by the board of engineers Malaysia, TEVT, Malaysia skill certificate and instrumentation competency certificate.

Course objective

• The objective of the program is to provide instrument engineers, plant tech, plant operators and others plant personnel with a good knowledge and skill so that they can optimum operating plant.

At the end of the course, the participants should be able to:

• Explain the process behaviour and effect of order lag on control system.
• Identify the problems of plant control.
• Select proper control modes for various process control applications.
• Identify the combination type of process control.
• Tuning the control loop.
• Differentiate the advanced and basic control system.
• Explain the general guidelines for cascade, split range and ratio control.
• Understand the basic principles of dead time and predictive control.
• Outline the structure of the control equation contained in a feed forward controller.
• Understand the problems associated with multivariable control and the solution approaches that are available to solve these problems.
• Apply multivariable control systems.

Training methodology

• Lecture
• Classroom discussions
• Short video presentation
• Case study

Course contents

• Proportional, integral and derivative algorithm.
• Transfer function of close and open loops.
• Process behaviour
• Stability and frequency response analysis, root locus analysis, improving the steady state error and transient response.
• Optimum control setting.
• Advance control level one; cascade control, split range control, selector control, non linear and basic ratio control, (the need and setting parameters).
• Ratio and feed forward control, mass and energy heat balance approach.
• Feed forward control, lead, lag, gain and dead time compensator approach.
• Multivariable control loop; modelling, prediction, coupler decoupler controller, smith predictor and internal multivariable control (IMC).
• Supervisory control system.
• Introduction to optimization and constrain control.
• Development of control system to control distillation column and other examples of plant application control.