ESTE 270 - Process Control Instrumentation and Troubleshooting

• Describe and discuss “Process Safety Management.”
• Identify industry standard control tags.
• Interpret a Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID).
• Define basic concepts of thermodynamics.
• Describe and solve challenges involving heat capacity, material balances, and/or heat transfer.
• Describe specific gravity of liquids and its relation to measuring tank levels using pressure.
• Operate processes for both flow and liquid level control.
• 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 automatically control a process loop.

1. Thermodynamics terms and units of measurement.
2. Specific heat capacity, internal energy, and enthalpy.
3. Ideal gas law: temperature, pressure, and volume.
4. Steam systems/boilers/heat transfer/heat exchangers/condensers/distillation.
5. Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management (RM).
6. Introduction to process controls.
7. Manipulated and controlled variables.
8. Instrument tags.
9. Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams.
10. Loop controllers.
11. Final control elements.
12. Level measurement.
13. Liquid level control.
14. Methods of automatic control.
15. Basic flow measurement and control.
16. Differential pressure flow measurement and control.