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Process Control Loops and PID Tuning

Feedback control from first principles to a tuned, stable loop. Covers process dynamics and gain, the PID algorithm and what each term actually does, tuning methods and how to apply them safely, cascade, ratio and feedforward schemes, and diagnosing loops that oscillate or do nothing.

Taught by Icompetent Solutions

Modules: 8
Lessons: 42
Duration: 9h 21m
Level: Advanced
Quizzes: 8 graded
Enrolled: 14

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Course content

8 modules · 42 lessons · 9h 21m

Where feedback control sits in a plant, how to define what a loop is for, how to read a control design, how to choose what to control with what, and where control ends and protection begins.

The Control Hierarchy and the Control Engineer's Role
Preview
13 min
Control Objectives: Safety, Stability, Economics and Smoothness13 min
Reading Control Narratives and P&IDs for Control Design12 min
Degrees of Freedom and Choosing What to Control13 min
Where Control Ends and Protection Begins13 min
Module quiz: Control Engineering in Context9 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

Process Control

PID Tuning

Control Loops

Cascade Control

Automation

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