Instrumentation and Process Control Lab Equipment
Advanced process control
Principles of industrial sensors
Familiarisation with key sensors: mode of operation and application
PLC module
Self-contained PLC module for basic exercises; also suitable for IA 210 and RT 800
PLC application: materials handling process
Basic system of automation: transporting and sorting workpieces
Operation of industrial controllers
Simulation of controlled systems; digital controller with freely selectable parameters
Optimization of control loops
Tuning the controller to the controlled system; software simulation of the most common controlled systems
Flow/level control demonstration unit
Experimental introduction to control engineering using an example of a control led system for flow rate, level and level via flow rate (cascade control)
Training system: fundamentals of hydraulics
Complete training system providing an experimental introduction to the fundamentals of hydraulics
Training system: pneumatics, electro-pneumatics and PLC
Complete training system providing an experimental introduction to the fundamentals of pneumatics and electro-pneumatics, also with PLC
Control of four variables from process engineering
Practical control of level, flow rate, pressure and temperature
Multivariable control: vacuum degassing
Model of “degassing of fluids”: coupled level and pressure control in one vacuum tank
Multivariable control: stirred tank
Heated stirrer tank with heat recovery as model: coupled level and temperature control
Fundamentals of process control
Training system: level control, HSI
Fundamentals of control engineering using the example of a level control system with integral behaviour
Training system: flow control, HSI
Fundamentals of control engineering using the example of a rapid flow control system
Training system: pressure control, HSI
Fundamentals of control engineering using the example of a pressure control system with first order lag
Training system: temperature control, HSI
Fundamentals of control engineering using the example of a temperature control system with dead time
Training system: speed control, HSI
Fundamentals of control engineering using the example of a speed control system with first order lag
Training system: position control, HSI
Fundamentals of control engineering using the example of a position control system with integral behaviour
Measuring methods
Fundamentals of humidity measurement
Climatic chamber with adjustable humidity; comparison of four measuring methods
Fundamentals of temperature measurement
Experimental introduction to temperature measurement: methods, areas of application, characteristics
Fundamentals of pressure measurement
Measurement of positive and negative pressure with different measuring devices
Vapour pressure of water – Marcet boiler
Fundamentals of control engineering using the example of a pressure control system with first order lag