Webinar
No. IC-4003W
In Introduction to Industrial Process Control, you'll learn ...
- Field instruments and communication devices used in modern control systems
- Elements and applications of distributed control systems
- Elements and applications of advanced process control and optimization systems
- Control room design and layout
Overview
The methods for controlling a chemical plant or a refinery have come a long way from pneumatic-operated valves, strip charts, computer printouts, and panel-mounted alarms. Today’s process control systems take advantage of many advancements in the field, including smart transmitters, computer- based historians, relational databases, and safety instrument systems (SIS).
This webinar provides a helpful overview of modern control systems. We will examine and discuss field instruments (meters, smart transmitters, valves, etc.), communication between field instruments and the control room, and various systems inside the control room. We will also look at the tools used to control the plants.
This webinar is ideal for engineers who work in chemical plants or refineries but may not be familiar with control systems. It offers a basic introduction to modern control systems without delving into details that would require a lot more time and advanced study.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Field instruments (inputs and outputs) of modern control systems
- Flow measurements (inputs): turbine meters, vortex meters, electro magic meters, ultrasonic meters, Coriolis meters
- Temperature measurements (inputs): thermocouples, resistance temperature detectors (RTD), infrared temperature sensors, etc.
- Outputs: I/P control valves, motor-operated valves (MOVs), variable frequency drives, valves diagnostic
- Smart transmitters
- Field communication of modern control systems
- Junction boxes
- Copper cables
- Fiber-optic cables
- Remote I/O
- Wireless I/O
- Electronic marshaling (charm I/O)
- Modbus network protocol
- Profibus
- Object linking and embedding for process control (OPC)
- Distributed control systems (DCS)
- Controllers
- Architecture
- Workstations and workstation design
- Application servers
- Network and network security
- Historians
- Reports systems
- Alarms and alarm management
- Supervisor control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems
- Safety instrument systems (SIS)
- Advanced process control (APC) and optimization systems
- APC applications
- Real time optimization (RTO) and applications
- Control room layouts
- Control room design
- Human study factor
- Support staff: technicians and contractors/vendors
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