Control technology in process industryLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

This course is aiming at creating an overview of process automation, its documentation, control activities, and instrumentation and control system hardware. The course includes a core content part of 40 %, and an additional part of 60 % concerning in-work learning and personal projects related to the core content topics.

After completing the course, participants are capable to
• identify automation based on PI diagram tags
• analyse the working principle of control logic and feedback control loops
• justify and choose feasible measurement principles and actuators to process locations
• understand essential application fields of programmable logic controllers (PLC)
• present common system topologies of distributed control systems (DCS) as system diagrams, and
explain application fields of these systems.

Content

How to identify measurement, closed control, on-off valve, on-off motor and open control loopscin PI diagrams?
When is control logic enough, and when do we need closed loop control?
What kinds of measurement principles are used in basic measurements of process industries, and where are they applicable?
When to use pumps, fans, valves, heating elements, and which actuators are needed for them?
What kinds of assessment results lead to the usage of programmable logic controllers, and how to connect field devices to them?
When are distributed control systems useful, and how do we connect field devices to them?

Evaluation

After completing this course our participants
• find, study, produce and assess critically multidisciplinary data in their field of expertise
• work independently in the demanding expert duties of their professional field or as entrepreneurs