5641 (v.5) WASM Process Control 561
Area: | WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area |
Contact Hours: | 4.0 |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Fundamentals-Basics 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/trial and error methods. Cascade control and force-forward control systems. Practical aspects-control instruments. Understanding and sketching of control system diagrams. Flow/level/density/temperature/pressure control loops. Applications of process control in mnerals industry. |
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