Efficient Process Control Principles in Heat-and-Power Engineering
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Appendix 1
Course: Efficient Process Control Principles in Heat-and-Power Engineering
Programme Summary
Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology
Degree: Master
Course units:
- Unit 1. Methods and tools of automated process control systems.
- Unit 2. Combined control of objects and processes in thermal power industry.
- Unit 3. Automated process control systems.
Course contents:
Unit 1. Methods and tools of automated process control systems.
- Theory and patterns of control. The structure of a process control system. Instrument designations in automation diagrams.
- Control circuit structure. Creating control responses.
- Process modelling principles. Classification of models. Building dynamic system models.
Unit 2. Combined control of objects and processes in thermal power industry.
- Standard links in a process control system. Mathematical models of control objects and systems, combined control systems.
- Control laws. Quality control criteria. Main type of industrial control systems; selecting efficient control systems; control systems and transient processes.
- Dynamic properties of control systems identified through calculation and experiment.
- Software for designing and analyzing process automation systems.
- Quality control indicators. Methods for setting up standard controls.
Unit 3. Automated process control systems.
- General structure of a process control system, including different levels and their functions.
- Examples of different industrial applications of process control systems. Operation of real-life process control systems.
Activities:
- Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
- Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
- Office-hours.
Total hours – 72.
Total points – 2.
Classroom hours – 36.
Unsupervised hours – 36.
Midterm assessment – Pass/fail examination.
