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Objectives

This course is designed to provide engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical knowledge involved in the selection, application, installation and commissioning of industrial instrumentation and on-line analytical instrumentation.

The Delegates

• Professionals involved in designing, selecting, sizing, specifying, installing, testing, operating and maintaining process instrumentation and control systems :
  • Automation Engineers
  • Chemical Engineers
  • Consulting Engineers
  • Design Engineers
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Installation and Maintenance Technicians
  • Instrument and Process Control Engineers and Technicians
  • Instrument Fitters
  • Maintenance Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineers and Technicians
  • Operations Engineers
  • Process Engineers & Process Operators
  • Production Managers
  • Project Managers
  • System Integrators
  • Professionals with little to moderate production facility design and/or operations background
  • Other professionals who want a better understanding of the subject matter

Contents

• Overview

• • Purpose of instrumentation
  • Location of control functions
  • Variables measured and controlled
  • Final control elements
  • Instrument operating medium

• Basic measurement concepts

• • Measured and controlled variables
  • Performance terms and specifications
  • Measurement terminology
  • P&ID symbols

• Flow measurement

• • Basic fluid properties
  • Reynolds number
  • Flow measurement
  • Positive Displacement Meters
  • Inferential meters
  • Oscillatory Flow Meters
  • Differential Pressure Meters
  • Electromagnetic Flowmeters
  • Ultrasonic Flowmeters
  • Coriolis meters
  • Thermal mass meters
  • Open Channel Flow

• Temperature measurement

• • Basic principles
  • Scales
  • Expansion systems
  • Thermocouples
  • Resistance thermometry
  • Thermistors
  • Radiation thermometry
  • Installation considerations

• Pressure measurement

• • Basic principles
  • Manometers
  • Dead weight testers
  • Bourdon tubes
  • Bellow elements
  • Diaphragm elements
  • Electrical displacement sensors

• Level measurement

• • Basic principles
  • Visual gauging systems
  • Float systems
  • Displacement systems
  • Conductive level detection
  • Capacitive level measurement
  • Hydrostatic head measurement
  • Ultrasonic level measurement
  • Radar gauging
  • Nuclear level measurement
  • Point level measurement

• Basic chemistry

• • Elements, compounds and mixtures
  • Properties of elements
  • Formation of ions
  • Bonding
  • Chemical formulae and equations
  • Atomic weight
  • Molar concentrations
  • Acids and bases

• Electrochemical cells

• • Electrode potentials
  • Simple voltaic cell
  • Polarisation.
  • Daniell cell
  • Electrolytic bridges
  • Electrochemical series

• On-line analytical measurement

• • Measurement of pH
  • Measurement of Redox
  • Conductivity measurement
  • Dissolved oxygen measurement
  • Chlorine measurement
  • Turbidity measurement
  • On-line colorimetry and titration
  • Infrared Spectroscopy
  • Gas chromatography

The Discount

10% in case of Three P. (or more)