Study Guide

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)?

Materials

Material in the Learn base.

Teaching methods

The course is carried out on a working week basis.

Independent track:
Exam and working life project.

Blended track:
Exam and RDI project

Employer connections

Possible excursions to companies.

Exam schedules

Learn exam from the theory part.

Making and returning a report on laboratory exercises.

Content scheduling

Theory sections as web-based distance education.

Practical laboratory work at the Kotka campus on the days of the near-term study.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

From theory part an exam in Learn base.

Laboratory exercise.

Qualifications

Prerequisite courses are:
Energy engineering mathematics 2
Instrumentation and electrification