Oil and Gas Engineering Training Courses


Process Control of Chemical Engineering Operations in Oil & Gas Industry

REF: 15362_298157
DATE: 15 - 19 Apr 2024
LOCATION:

Milan (Italy)

INDIVIDUAL FEE:

5500 Euro



Course Content:

Unit 1: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Controls:

  • Overview of chemical engineering process control background
  • The objectives of control
  • Definitions & terminology
  • Design methodology for process control
  • Failures in process control; case studies of three major disasters
    • Bhopal case
    • Three Mile Island case
    • Texas city case
  • Current significance:
    • Introduction
    • Automation
  • Introduction to distributed control system (DCS):
    • Control system hardware

Unit 2: Modeling Basics:

  • Verbal modeling:
    • Process description
    • Control specifications
    • Connections
    • Prerequisite information regarding a process
    • Step-by-step method for describing controls and their purpose
    • Alternative method of verbal modeling
    • The Barkel method of verbal modeling
  • Degrees of freedom:
    • Importance
    • Calculation procedure
    • Applications
  •  Incidence graphs:
    • Introduction
    • Monotonicity
    • Consistent graphs
    • Inconsistent graphs
    • Partially consistent graphs
    • Sensors & Actuators
  • Measurement devices:
    • Industrial applications
    • Temperature control: thermocouples
    • Pressure control: pressure switch
    • Composition control: ratio control
    • Level control: level switches
    • Flow control: flow meres
  • Temperature sensors:
    • Thermometers
    • Residence temperature detectors
    • Thermocouples
    • Pyrometers
  • Temperature regulators:
    • Regulator structure
    • Regulator operation
    • Types of temperature regulators
    • Resistance temperature detectors
  • Pressure sensors:
    • Sensor selection criteria
    • Process
    • Environment
    • Pressure range
    • Sensitivity
  • Pressure measuring methods:
    • Height of liquid methods
    • Elastic distortion
    • Electrical methods
  • Types of sensors:
    • Elastic sensors
    • Electric sensors
    • Differential pressure cells
    • Vacuum sensors
  • Semi-batch reactor problem:
    • Shutdown point
    • Types of semi-batch reactor sensors
  • Level sensors:
    • Visual level sensors
    • Common uses
    • Benefits of visual level sensors
    • Restrictions
    • Sight tube indicators
    • Float type level sensors
    • Buoyancy types
    • Static types
    • Formulas
    • Valve-based level sensors
  • Electrical level sensors:
    • Conductive level sensing
    • Capacitance level sensing
    • Radiation-based level sensors
    • Flow sensors
    • Ultrasonic flow meters

Unit 3:Mathematics for Control Systems

  • Measurement devices:
    • Dirac delta
    • First-order differential equations
    • Second-order differential equations
    • Optimization
  • Unit 4:Optimization:

    • Definition
    • Engineering application
    • Optimization across an organization
    • Optimization design
    • Constraints
    • Optimization situations
    • Real-time optimization
    • Industry experience
    • Pilot plant experience
  • Linear optimization:
    • Introduction
    • characteristics
  • Non-linear optimization:
    • Introduction
    • Quadratic optimization
    • Iterative methods
    • Applications

Oil and Gas Engineering Training Courses
Process Control of Chemical Engineering Operations in Oil & Gas Industry (15362_298157)

REF: 15362_298157   DATE: 15.Apr.2024 - 19.Apr.2024   LOCATION: Milan (Italy)  INDIVIDUAL FEE: 5500 Euro

 

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