This course teaches students the proper use of instrumentation hand tools, and instrumentation calibrators. Topics regarding overview of control instrumentation, air supply systems including conditioning of instrument air, and tube and pipe fittings will be covered. Also, examines the different types of regulators used including: pressure regulators, pilot operated regulators, differential pressure regulators and flow regulators.

Examines temperature units and conversion. Also examines principles of temperature measurement such as: thermometers and bi-metallic, filled thermal systems, temperature switches, RTD's (includes thermistors), thermocouples and non-contract temperature measurements. This course will cover an introduction to the various temperature instruments such as: pneumatic transmitters, electronic transmitters, smart transmitters (digital), temperature recorders and current to current transducers.

Teaches the principles of pressure measurement including: units and conversions, pressure elements, pressure switches and pressure gauges. Pneumatic instruments will also be examined such as: basic pneumatic instrument components, force balance instruments, motion balance instruments, pressure transmitters and pressure recorders. This course also looks at the following electronic instruments: electronic transmitters, smart transmitters (digital, pneumatic to current transducers, and current to pneumatic transducers.

Investigates flow measurement: displacement flow meters, flow switches, rotameters, turbines, pitot tubes, orifice plates and flow nozzles, connecting piping, pipe and tube fittings, sensing line fabrication, flumes and wiers, inferential flow calculations, magnetic flow meters and others. Flow instruments reviewed are pneumatic transmitters, electronic transmitters, smart flow transmitters (digital).

Density measurement will be examined in this course including: buoyancy, nuclear, refractometers, head type and boiling point rise. Further topics include level measurement, level switches (float, conductivity, etc), gauge glasses, head level measurement, bubble pipes, displacement level detectors, nuclear level, capacitance level and ultrasonic.

Control Valves and positioners will be examined including: valve bodies, diaphragm actuators, piston actuators, sliding stem valves, rotary acting valves and valve sizing. This course also covers valve positioners such as: pneumatic, electro/pneumatic, smart and Fieldbus.

Students will be trained in the fundamentals and calibration of transmitters used for analytical measurement such as pH, conductivity, ORP and dissolved oxygen. Students will gain experience tuning DCS control systems using advanced control strategies to operate a chemical process to control variables such as pH and electrolytic conductivity.

Programmable logic controllers will be examined as to the application of motor control, conventional relay systems, ladder logic and programming PLCs.

Students will learn the fundamentals of signal conditioning and scaling. Students will learn the fundamentals of control modes and controller modes. Students will learn alignment and maintenance of pneumatic controllers. Student will learn to program microprocessor controllers and wire them for a given application.

This course looks at a variety of process control and control systems. Analog control concepts such as on/off, two mode control, three mode control. Pneumatic controllers, electronic controllers and manual/auto transfer are investigated. The following control strategies are also covered: duplex control, auto selector, gap action, relation, cascade, ratio and feed forward. Loop tuning techniques and hands-on experience with live processes are included. HVAC control systems are also included such as: heating systems, ventilating systems and air conditioning systems.

This course investigates the different types of DCS and microprocessor controllers such as generic computer control systems. A Foxboro I/A DCS system is investigated and programmed. Students will also gain experience configuring and troubleshooting a PLC using FBD programming. A PC-based HMI (Human Machine Interface) system is also included in this course.

Students will learn the fundamentals of industrial boiler control, including burner management safety. Students will gain experience tuning up a real industrial boiler control system with state of the art controls to achieve optimum performance from the boiler. Students will gain hands-on experience with a Foundation Fieldbus control system applied to a wide variety of control loops on a running boiler.