A Real-Time Approach to Process Control, 3rd Edition

Workshop 1

Learning through Doing

Course Philosophy: ‘Learning through Doing’

In conjunction with this workshop, you should review Chapter 1 in the book.

This course consists of a set of learning modules or workshops, each of which is intended to enhance your understanding of process control and simulation theory and application through hands-on experience using the latest simulation technology and actual laboratory experiments.

Key Learning Objectives

1. Develop an understanding of the general organization of the course and what is expected.

2. Understand how to proceed through the course.

3. Develop a working knowledge of the VMGSim Steady State and Dynamic Simulation Package.

4. Understand the fundamentals of steady-state and dynamic process simulation.

Course Coverage

This course will deal with the fundamental and underlying principles of automatic process control and simulation. The course covers the theory associated with single-input/single-output (SISO) loops and how these are configured into multi-loop schemes to control complex unit operations and entire plants. It will not discuss in detail the hardware or individual measurement techniques, such as flow, temperature and pressure, except measurement as it affects the control loop. In the course note, Chapter 2 provides a simplified summary of control loop hardware.

Prerequisites

No elaborate prerequisites are required, however an understanding of unit operation modelling is assumed. It is inevitable that modelling ...