- Course Introduction: motivation for process control. Basic concepts of control and key elements.
- Instrumentation. Factors to be considered in selecting an instrument. Instruments for temperature, pressure, flow rate and level measurements.
- Final control elements. Control valves and control valves sizing.
- Diagrams for process control systems: block diagrams, process flow diagrams (PFDs), Piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)
- Inputs and outputs in control systems.
- Introduction to feedback control: feedback control and block diagrams, control loop problems and direction of control action. Controller hardware.
- Dynamic response and steady state gain. First order systems, secondo order system, high-order systems, delay, inverse response, stable and unstable systems.
- Dynamic modelling: Laplace transform, derivation of basic transforms, solution of differential equations using Laplace transforms, transfer functions, block diagram algebra, forming dynamic models, model identification
- Fundamentals of control systems: on-off control, open-loop control, closed loop control
- Feedback control: PID controller algorithm, controller tuning. Stability of the controlled system.
-Design of advanced control systems: cascade control, feedforward and ratio control, split-range control, selective control
- Multivariable systems: introduction to plant control
- Cenni al controllo multivariabile
- Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
- Elements of probability and statistics: probability, random variables, variance and covariance, linear regression. General methods: evaluation of measurement uncertainty.
- Feedback controller design for industrial units.