AL-E187G MULTI PROCESS CONTROL TRAINER

Description

AL-E187G MULTI PROCESS CONTROL TRAINER

MULTI PROCESS TRAINER

DESCRIPTION

Process Trainer is an educational package that mimics industrial process engineering. The fully integrated, self-contained teaching apparatus gives a comprehensive range of process control experiments, from basic to advanced.

Using water as the working fluid, the equipment allows safe, practical experiments on control of flow, liquid level, temperature and pressure. Students can study each of these separately or in combinations.

The experiment module includes all the essential parts to allow students to create process control systems. The main part is the process vessel, with a stirrer, a temperature sensor, level and pressure sensors, a heat exchanger and vent valve. It also includes two loops, linked by the heat exchanger in the process vessel. One loop is the heating loop with pump, heater tank and heater. The other loop is a process and cooling loop with pump, cooler, fan, valves and reservoir.

The control module links to the experiment module to provide access to the connections of each part on the experiment module. It includes a clear mimic diagram with switches and controls to allow manual control of pump speed, cooler-fan speed, heater power and stirrer. It also includes sockets and a built-in computer interface. This allows the user to link each part of the experiment module to a suitable computer (not included) for remote control and data acquisition.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Clear process vessel with:

• Heat exchanger coil

• Stirrer

• Vent valve

• Pressure transmitter

• Level transmitter

• Temperature transmitter

• Drain valve

Heating loop with:

• Heater tank with heater

• Low level float switch

• Temperature transmitter

• Circulation pump

• Heat exchanger output/tank return temperature transmitter

• Heater loop flow rate transmitter

• Over-temperature safety device

Process and cooling loop with:

• Cooling radiator and fan

• Reservoir (with low-water level switch)

• Circulation pump

• Temperature transmitter (at inlet to the cooling radiator)

• Temperature transmitter (at outlet of the cooling radiator)

• Flow transmitter

• Proportional valve

• Process loop bypass valve

LEARNING OUTCOME

• Proportional, Integral and Derivative (PID) control
• Control of flow
• Control of level
• Control of pressure
• Control of temperature
• Multi-loop control
• Interacting control loops

Technical Details