This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of the advanced process control and loop tuning. It covers the APC systems and its elements comprising of distributed control system (DCSD) platforms, computer platforms, software and operator interfaces; the design parameters, input/output counts, scan and control frequencies, redundancies and backup; the loop tuning and its fundamentals; the different tuning rules and the comparison of the ten different rules; and the tables of typical tuning settings, when to use them/when not to use them and the rules of thumb in tuning.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the tuning of valves, automated tuning, self-tuning loops and adaptive control; the tuning of more complex systems covering cascade systems, feedforward, ratio and multivariable systems; the interactive loops tuning, dead time compensation and practical limitations; the good practice in loop tuning and good practice for common loop problems; and the flow control loop characteristics, level control loop characteristics, temperature control loop characteristics, pressure control loop characteristics and other less common loops.