Advanced Process Control

This 3 day course gives a practical introduction to the application of advanced control techniques in the process industries. It is an intensive course which relies heavily on the use of computer simulation software to allow for many practical examples and control strategies to be implemented.

The course starts with a firm foundation in the important fundamentals of PID control and then moves on to explore some of the advanced classical methods and techniques popular in current industrial practice. For all topics, you will gain hands-on experience in tuning controllers and testing algorithm performance.

Suitable For:  engineers, chemists, operations and maintenance personnel with a basic understanding of process control.

Key Topics Covered:

• Fundamental principles of process control
• Modelling process dynamics
• Process control preliminaries
• Proportional only Control
• Automated Controller Design
• Advanced Modelling of Dynamic Process Behaviour
• Integral action and PI control
• Controller Performance Criteria
• Derivative Action, Derivative Filtering and PID control
• Cascade Control
• Feed Forward Control
• Multivariable Controller Interaction and Loop Decoupling
• Modelling, Analysis and Control of Multivariable Processes
• Model Based Smith Predictor for process with Large Dead Time