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Measurement and control technology (5 cr)

Code: EN00BH52-3006

General information


Enrollment

08.11.2021 - 21.11.2021

Timing

10.01.2022 - 29.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Kotka Campus

Teaching languages

  • English

Seats

10 - 60

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Energy Engineering

Teachers

  • Vesa Kankkunen
  • Kirsi Hovikorpi

Teacher in charge

Vesa Kankkunen

Groups

  • ENKT20SP
    Energy engineering, full-time studies

Objective

After completing this course, you will be able to
- explain the main operating principles in measuring and controlling levels, temperatures, pressures and flows
- realize PID controllers
- analyze the relationship of process dynamics and PID controller tuning
- realize and commission basic instrumentation and motor loops in programmable logic controllers (PLC).

Content

How to control automatically the level of a tank, the temperature of a fluid, the flow in a pipeline or the pressure of steam, and thus improve the energy efficiency of a process?
How does a PID controller compute the control signal to an actuator in a feedback control loop, and how are the tuning parameters specified?
How do differential equations and Laplace transfer function models describe process dynamics, and how are these models applied to Matlab Simulink for simulations?
How to make a program for a measurement, feedback control or pump control in a programmable logic controller (PLC)?

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

Prerequisite courses are:
Energy engineering mathematics 2
Instrumentation and electrification