This course teaches you how to conceive, design, and implement process control schemes inside a DCS or even a PLC. There are many DCS and PLC vendors and this course builds skills that are useful for all types and models of any DCS or PLC. Whether you work in a chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, polymer, electric power, paper, or any manufacturing process, this course will teach you the skills to come up with new advanced process control ideas and schemes. The knowledge will also help in the design of controls for safer and smoother plant operation and to run the plant better, smoother, and with reduced chance of mistakes, shutdowns, and human error. The knowledge will help to maximize production rates, minimize utilities, speed up product grade transitions and improve key performance indicators. In an era of a lot of approaching retirees in the industry and the entry of new personnel in the control room, this course is a must for any process control engineer, DCS engineer, PLC engineer, or process control technician.
Learning Outcomes
This course teaches the main components of a DCS and even a PLC. It describes the DCS and PLC architecture. It explains all DCS and PLC control functions. It teaches standard and custom DCS logic blocks. It covers batch, sequential, continuous and semi-batch control schemes. It teaches how to design and implement control schemes. It explains how to design and implement various standard function blocks available in most DCSs and PLCs. The various standard function blocks are listed below. With knowledge from PID100, APC200, this course is a perfect continuation to build the process control skills and knowledge and be more in the realm of what is available in DCSs and PLCs. After completion of this course, the student will be ready to build new APC tags inside a DCS or PLC. The following topics are covered in this course:
Process Control Nomenclature and Basic Definitions
SAMA Standard Diagrams and Symbols
PID Control
PID Related Peripheral Algorithms
PIDFF – PID with Feedforward
Transfer Function
Nonlinearity
SMOOTH Filtering for Noisy Signals
Dead Time and TRANSPORT Algorithm
LEADLAG Algorithm
Monitoring Algorithms
Boolean Logic Algorithms
Timers and Counters
Input and Output Algorithms
Multiple Signal Algorithms
Calculation Algorithms and Programs
Smith PREDICTOR Algorithm
PID Tuning Procedures
Procedures for Testing, Commissioning & Troubleshooting
DCS/PLC algorithms
