This popular course offers a combination of practical information and hands-on experience, covering proper installation, calibration, and maintenance of electronic instruments. You will examine characteristics of electronic control systems; techniques for installing electronic instruments; and procedures for configuring and calibrating transmitters, transducers, and controllers.
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to;
- Employ proper safety practices during installation, calibration, and maintenance procedures.
- Connect wiring in an electronic control loop.
- Select and operate test equipment to measure electrical properties and calibrate instruments.
- Calibrate electronic transmitters and controllers.
- Recognize the importance of maintenance in the proper operation of instruments and control systems.
- Use manufacturer's guidelines to configure instruments for specific process applications.
- Explain installation considerations and practices for instruments and control systems.
- Install electronic instruments using manufacturer's guidelines and ISA's recommended practices and procedures.
- Use piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID), wiring, schematic, and installation detail drawings to install, calibrate, and verify proper operation of instruments.
- Explain methods for reducing electrical hazards including intrinsically safe installation.
- Describe the trend toward using fieldbus systems and personal computers in process control.
- Explain the relevance of ISO 9000 standards to maintenance practices and procedures.
- Loop Characteristics: Current Loop | Power Source.
- Laboratory and Test Equipment: Multimeter | Process Calibrator.
- Calibration and Configuration: Instrument Performance | Calibration Standards | Device Calibration | Calibration Documentation | Configuring Smart Transmitters.
- Instrument Maintenance: Corrective | Preventive | Predictive.
- Installation: Grounding and Isolation | Plant Conditions | Documentation.
- Electronic Controllers: Control Strategies | Controller Maintenance | Digital Controllers.
- Safety in Hazardous Locations: Location Classification | Explosion Proofing | Purging and Pressurization | Intrinsic Safety.
- Trends: Personal Computers in Control | Fieldbus Technology.
Classroom/Laboratory Exercises:
- Calculate, record, and graph instrument performance data to compare with specifications and identify errors.
Measure and record voltage, current, and resistance.
- Calculate span and range values for various level measurement applications.
- Calibrate differential pressure, RTD, thermocouple, and I/P transmitters and transducers.
- Configure smart differential pressure and temperature transmitters.
- Construct a simple feedback flow loop, perform a loop check, and tune the loop using trial and error tuning.
- View a three-wire RTD demonstration and identify errors.
- Configure and calibrate a single loop digital controller.
A hand-held calculator should be brought to class.
- Technicians, engineers, and managers who are interested in redressing their knowledge and/or learning from the basics.
4.5 Days
