Læringsutbytte

A candidate who has completed the course will have a learning outcome in the form of aquired knowledge, skills, and general competence, as described below[1].

Knowledge

The candidate:

• understands the need for control and automation of industrial plants in order to achieve safe, stable and profitable operation.
• has knowledge about the most common document types within automation such as and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) and the most important tests in automation such as Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and Site Acceptance Tests (SAT)
• has knowledge about the application of classical PID control and control structures such as ratio control, cascade control and split range control.
• has knowledge about control of the most common unit operations and process equipment such as vessels, reactors, flash tanks, columns and heat exchangers.
• understands the need for, and has knowledge about safety and automatic safety interlocks in industrial plants.
• has knowledge about real-time optimization (RTO) .

Skills

The candidate:

• is able to analyse a process flowsheet and a process description for an industrial plant and develop a control structure that will ensure stable operation maintaining mass and energy balances as well as addressing product quality.
• is able to identify important safety risks in case of failure in the normal control system of a plant and is able to develop automatic safety interlocks preventing hazardous situations to escalate.
• is able to investigate possibilities for increased profit of a plant using Real-Time Optimization.

General competence

The candidate:

• is able to analyze and solve overall problems in automation and operation of industrial plants taking into account both safety and economy.

[1] Codes given in parentheses correspond to the codes given in the programme description.

Innhold

• Need for control in industrial processes
• Control structure to ensure stable operation
• Ratio-, cascade- and split control etc to enhance control performance
• Safety functions
• Control hierarchy
• Real-time optimization (RTO)
• Automation of continuous and batch processes.
• Project management of automation projects.

Arbeids- og læringsformer

Lectures, examples, exercises and a project are used.

The lectures provide the new knowledge and understanding introduces in this course. The examples are used to demonstrate the application of the new knowledge. The exercises are used so the students can test the new knowledge and develop skills applying the new knowledge the relevant industrial problems. The project will put several issues from the course together and apply knowledge and skills in analyzing a process and develop a well functioning control structure for an industrial case.

Vurderingsformer

The final test counts 100 %. A number of mandatory exercises and a project have to be approved to pass the final exam.

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