Course Overview
This course covers in detail the basic building blocks of automatic control systems, including transducers, amplifiers, controllers, and final control elements. It also includes controller settings and adjustments, and PID control loop tuning as it applies to marine controls.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
5.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Use control terminology and definitions.
- Describe different control media.
- Describe how to measure temperature, pressure, level, flow, speed, torque, viscosity, water purity, and carbon dioxide.
- Describe the function of the major elements of the control system.
- Describe types of control actions.
- Explain multi-loop control systems.
- Tune PID controller and adjust control loop performance.
- Describe the operating principle of pneumatic transducers and controllers.
- Describe the pneumatic supply system and its elements.
- Describe the common types of fire detectors and the fire detection alarm circuit.
- Sketch and describe valve positioners for pneumatic actuators.
- Sketch and describe diesel engine control systems.
- Sketch and describe steam plant automatic control systems.
- Describe the operating principle of the integrated monitoring and alarm system.
Effective as of Winter 2011
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