Measurement and Process Control

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Course objectives

Enable students to understand the importance of automated systems, to comprehend that the autonomous operation of such systems is the result of carefully thought and physically realized control procedures, and to be able to grasp the role of measuring equipment in that work. Enable students to gain basic knowledge on the use of computers as a support for the process control.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

Enrolled in or passed the course Exercises in Measurement and Process Control

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After completing this course, students will be able to describe the different measuring transducers, as well as to analyze the importance and impact of individual measurements in process control. Students will be able to describe the basic concepts from the process management and control theory and to argue their choice of instrumentation. They will be able to describe the basic use of computers as a support for the control theory and to calculate the elementary data needed to control a simple system.

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

Significance and importance of instrumentation in chemical engineering. General characteristics of transducers. Pressure measurements. Temperature measurements. Fluid flow measurements. Level measurements. Humidity and moisture measurements. Introduction to process control principles. Systems and control. Process control objectives. Behavior of control process: mathematical modeling. Control theory basics: Laplace transformation, transfer function, block diagram algebra. Analysis of first and second order processes. First and second order processes in control loop, stability analysis, and synthesis of P - controller. Design and characteristics of instrumentation in control loop.

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