This course is designed for Process Engineers who want to better understand the relationship between process design and plant operation.
As modern plants become increasingly complex and integrated, the course explores how process design decisions affect operability and control, helping engineers develop processes that are not only efficient, but also easier to operate and control.
Some questions answered during the course:
- How valve ́s size affects the process behavior?, What problems are encountered for wrongly sized valve?
- How valve characteristics change when it is installed?
- How to identify process responses and non-linear behavior?
- What process parameter determines the ability of a process to reject, or attenuate, disturbances?
- Why is process capacitance good for disturbance rejection, but produces very slow response times?
- Why process Dead Time has no effect on the filtering capability of the process?
- When can processes with Dead Time can cause problems in the control?
- What kind of processes can be covered with the Feedback control?
- What is the effect of filtering in the control response?
- What processes can benefit from the PID derivate action?
- How can Buffer tanks/surge drums can help to isolate equipment from upstream disturbances?
- What are the limitations of Feedback control, when Feedforward control is recommended?
Remember that no fancy Laplace transforms or Nyquist plots are used. The importance of the course is that all questions are answered from the practical side, through the use of already built dynamic models, so attendees can additionally evaluate the usability of the tool for certain dynamic/control analysis. However, no previous knowledge of the tool is required.
