Objectives
- Specify and design instrumentation systems
- Understand instrumentation and control valves
- Optimize control with effective selection and installation of your process equipment
- Install process equipment correctly
- Troubleshooting instrumentation systems and control valves
- Isolate and rectify instrumentation faults
- Understand the major technologies used for instrumentation and control valves
- Correctly select and size control valves for industrial use
Outlines
DAY 1:
INTRODUCTION
- Basic concepts
- Definitions
- Overview of pressure, level, temperature and flow
- Overview of valves
PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Sources
- Transducers and elements
- Specifications
- Installation issues
DAY 2:
LEVEL MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Simple sight glasses
- Buoyancy tape systems
- Hydrostatic pressure
- Ultrasonic measurement
- Radiation measurement
- Electrical measurement
- Density measurement
- Installation issues
DAY 3:
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Thermocouples
- Resistance temperature detectors
- Thermistors
- Liquid-in-glass, filled and bimetallic
- Pyrometers
- Installation issues
DAY 4:
FLOW MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Differential pressure flow meters
- Open channel flow measurement
- Oscillatory flow measurement
- Magnetic flow measurement
- Positive displacement
- Ultrasonic flow measurement
- Mass flow measurement
- Installation issues
DAY 5:
CONTROL VALVES
- Principles
- Control valve types
- Selection
- Characteristics and trim
- Noise and cavitation
- Actuators and positioners
- Installation issues
PROCESS CONSIDERATIONS
- Transmitters
- Noise
- Material of construction
INTEGRATION OF THE SYSTEM
- Individual instrument error and total error
- Testing and commissioning
Who Should Attend
- Electrical Engineers
- Maintenance Engineers
- Energy Management Consultants
- Automation Engineers
- Design Engineers
- Project Managers
- Instrument Fitters
- Electricians
- Instrumentation Engineers
- Consulting Engineers
- Production Managers
- Process Engineers
- Chemical Engineers
- Mechanical Engineers
- Instrument and Process Control Technicians