Instrumentation: Regulatory Control
e-Learning
About the eLearning Course
In this program, you will learn about regulatory control, including valves, signal transmission, and basic and advanced control systems.
Target Audience
Operations personnel who require a fundamental understanding of knowledge to operate and maintain facilities. Also suitable for maintenance and technician personnel whether new to their roles or seasoned experts looking to enhance their skills.You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Describe how valves control pressure, temperature, level, and flow rate.
- Describe the function of a hand-operated valve.
- Identify plug-cock valves, butterfly valves, and gate valves.
- Describe how to manually control a process regulated by valves.
- Describe how to automatically control a process regulated by valves.
- Describe how to read and interpret instrument measurements.
- Describe the differences between electrical and pneumatic control loops.
- Describe how a pneumatic transmission works to control a process.
- Describe the function of instrument air dryers.
- Describe the purpose and function of distributed process control systems (DCS).
- Describe the process of proportional, integral, and derivative control.
- Define proportional band and calculate theoretical span of measurement.
- Define and calculate gain.
- Describe the location of unique control features and equipment, including selectors, controls, and overrides.
- Describe the purpose and function of alarms and shutdowns.
- Describe how ratio control holds a variable at set point.
- Describe how cascade control functions within a control loop.
- Describe how feedforward control holds a variable at set point.
- Describe how feedforward with dynamics helps to control variables.
