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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EST 106 - Process Control Instrumentation and Troubleshoot Credits: 5 LEC hours per week: 3 LAB hours per week: 4 Learn how to manually and automatically control a process loop using a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller, feedback gauges and sensors, and a final control element. Math skills and knowledge of how to use a digital multimeter (DMM) are required. This course is a prerequisite for EST 285 : Advanced Instrumentation and SCADA. Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in AMATH 107 and EST 133 or instructor permission. Course Outcomes:
- Define basic concepts of thermodynamics.
- Describe and solve challenges involving heat capacity, ideal gas law, material balances, and/or heat transfer.
- Interpret a Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID).
- Describe a specific gravity of liquids and its relation to measuring tank levels using pressure.
- Troubleshoot and calibrate instruments in a process loop using relevant equations and a digital multi-meter (DMM).
- Demonstrate use of a controller to manage a current-pressure (I/P) converter and a pneumatic diaphragm valve.
- Program a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller to manually and automatically control a process loop.
Course Topics:
- Thermodynamics terms and units of measurement.
- Specific heat capacity, internal energy, and enthalpy.
- Ideal gas law: temperature, pressure, and volume.
- Steam systems/boilers/heat transfer/heat exchangers/condensers/distillation.
- Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management (RM).
- Introduction to process controls.
- Manipulated and controlled variables.
- Instrument tags.
- Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams.
- Loop controllers.
- Final control elements.
- Level measurement.
- Liquid level control.
- Methods of automatic control.
- Basic flow measurement and control.
- Differential pressure flow measurement and control.
- Introduction to SCADA.
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