Online Courses Handbook 2003

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.