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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
- 7
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 RolePreview13 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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