Process Control Design and Practice

Catalog description

Manufacturing facilities in the Process Industries are highly automated to meet modern efficiency, quality, safety, and environmental goals. This course teaches how sensors, valves, pumps, and computing devices are combined to control the unit operations studied in prerequisite courses. Students will learn to design batch and continuous processes capable of automated startup, operation and shutdown. Quality, safety, and environmental goals will translate to discrete and continuous constraints in automated process design. Students will learn to document process control and automation in Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and Functional Specifications. The challenges of operator interaction with automated systems will be featured.