:: Training Courses

Instruments and Controls

Enrollment Instructions

3.3 CEUs

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This training course covers the basics of electrical analog and digital modes of control and features practical hands-on exercises in aligning, calibrating, and troubleshooting. Field trips support classroom discussion. Participants receive classroom instruction, classroom exercises, and a PETEX book – Basic Instrumentation.

Length: 4 1/2 days

Course Content

Participants receive instruction in:

• Electrical review: current, voltage, and resistance relationships
• Transducers and transmitters
  • Operation and calibration
• Primary sensing elements
• Controller mechanisms
• Practical process situations
• Operation of controllers
• Application of controlled loops
• Microprocessor controllers
  • Introduction
  • Operation and configuration
• Control valves
• Safety alarms and shutdown monitoring devices

Recommended For

Gas plant, production, transmission, and related industry personnel involved with the operation and maintenance of analog and digital instruments in process control systems.

Related Courses

• Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA)

Dates

• Aug 2–6, 2010 - Houston
• Aug 1–5, 2011 - Houston

Cost: $1,660