5641 (v.5) WASM Process Control 561


Area: WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Fundamentals - basic concepts of automatic process control. Dynamic process modelling. Laplace transforms and transfer functions. Characterisation of process response curves. PID control theory and tuning PID controllers using open loop/closed loop/trialand error methods. Cascade control and force-forward control systems. Practical aspects of control instruments. Understanding and sketching of control system diagrams. Flow/level/density/temperature/pressure control loops. Applications of process controlin minerals industry.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 030305 Materials Engineering
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 1 Y   Y    
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External