This workshop is designed to provide engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical understanding of the process loop and how this can be applied to optimize process control in terms of quality, safety, flexibility and costs.

Professionals involved in designing, selecting, sizing, specifying, installing, testing, operating and maintaining process instrumentation and control systems

• Automation Engineers
• Chemical Engineers
• Consulting Engineers
• Design Engineers
• Electrical Engineers
• Electricians
• Installation and Maintenance Technicians
• Instrument and Process Control Engineers and Technicians
• Instrument Fitters
• Maintenance Engineers
• Operations Engineers
• Process Engineers
• Process Operators
• Production Professionals
• Project Professionals
• System Integrators
• Other professionals who want a better understanding of the subject matter

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

Basic process considerations

• Definition of terms
• Process lag, capacitance and resistance
• Process reaction curve
• 1st and 2nd order reactions

 Process measurement

• Instrumentation cabling
• Do’s and don’ts
• Filtering
• Aliasing
• Reaction masking
• Sensor placement
• Correct PV
• Effect of span

Final Control Element

• Choked flow
• Pressure recovery
• Flashing and cavitation
• Valve construction
• Valve characteristics
• Inherent
• Profiling
• Installed
• Cavitation control
• Actuators
• Diaphragm
• Cylinder
• Electric
• Valve positioners
• Deadband and hysterisis
• Stick-slip
• Testing procedures and analysis
• Effect of valve performance on controllability

Fundamentals of Process Control

• ON/OFF control
• Proportional control
• Proportional band vs. proportional gain
• Proportional offset
• Reset
• Integral action
• Integral windup
• Stability
• Bode plot
• Nyquist plot
• Derivative action
• PID control
• Control algorithms
• Load disturbances and offset
• Speed, stability and robustness
• Proportional band vs. proportional gain
• Proportional offset
• Reset
• Integral action
• Integral windup
• Stability
• Bode plot
• Nyquist plot
• Derivative action
• PID control
• Control algorithms
• Load disturbances and offset
• Speed, stability and robustness

Fundamentals of Tuning

• Basic principles
• Open loop reaction curve method (Ziegler-Nichols)
• Default and typical settings
• Closed loop continuous cycling method (Ziegler-Nichols)
• Lambda tuning
• Fine tuning
• Tuning for load rejection vs. set-point rejection
• Tuning according to Pessen
• Tuning for different applications
• Speed of response vs. robustness
• Surge tank level control

Automated tuning systems

• Self tuning loops
• Adaptive control

Advanced control algorithms

• Cascade systems
• Feedforward and combined systems
• Ratio control
• Adaptive control systems
• Dead time compensation
• Fuzzy logic control

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.