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ROLPHTO'J

NUCLEAR TRAINING CEinRE

COURSE 136

This course was originally developed for


the use of Ontario Hydro employees.
Reproduced on the CANTEACH web
site with permission

FOR ONTARIO HYDRO USE ONLY


NUCLEAR TRAINING COURSE

COURSE 136

1 - Level
3 - Equipment & System principles
6 - INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL

Index

136.00-0 student Objectives for Course

136.00-1 Control Equipment Review

136.00-2 Control Theory Review

136.00-3 Control Mode Settings

136.00-4 Introduction To Frequency Response

136.00-5 Direct Digital Control of ~rocesses

February 1982

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Instrumentation and Control ... Course 136


STUDENT OBJECTIVES FOR COURSE

Following course completion, the student will be able to:

136.00-1 Equipment Review

1. Discuss the various types of electronic pressure' trans-


mitters.
2. Explain the requirements and concepts of a typical elec...
tronic controller.
3. Discuss the selection of control valve characteristics
for particular circuit applications.
4. Explain methods of increasing the speed of response of
control valve's.

5. Discuss choice of fail action for control valves.

136.00-2 Control Theory Review

1. Explain the concept of feedback control and be able to


sketch and describe a typical control loop such as level
or pressure.
2. Represent a loop in block form and determine the re~ult­
ing close loop control ratio.

3. Describe the concept of loop gain and phase angle, anc'l'


know the particular values which will result in marginal
stability.

4. Present and explain a formula representing three mode


control.

5. Justify the presence of offset in a porportional control


system by logical discussion or by mathematical example.

6. Explain the term Reset Wind-Up, and state the reSUlting


effect on the controlled variable.

7. Explain the result of including derivative mode control


for a fast responding process.

8. Show the general format for a cascade control system and


know a working example.

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136.00-3 Control Mode Settings

1. Describe two methods of controller tuning and be able to


state advantages and disadvantages of each method.
2. Describe the general effect of capacitance and dead time
on a control system response.
3. State the
general rules regarding proportional band
adjustment in the case of capacitance and dead time.

136.00-4 Introduction to Frequency Response

1. Describe the concept of frequency response testing.

2. Explain the first order amplitude ratio and phase lag


formula.
3. Sketch first order Bode Plots and know two examples
related to instrumentation applications which can be
classified as first order.

4. State the definition of gain margin and phase marg in,


and be able to demonstrate these concepts on a Bode Plot
of a system.

5. Describe how to obtain the particular proportional band


necessary to provide a given gain or phase margin from a
Bode plot using the decibel and magnitUde ratio table.

6. Explain the effect of the different control modes on a


system Bode plot.

7. Describe the general second order transfer function and


state two practical examples related to control appli-
cations which can be classified as second order.
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136.00-5 Computer Control Concepts

1. Explain the concept of Analog and Digital Data Repre-


sentation.
2. D~SCU8S the principles of Analog to Digital and Digital
to Analog conversion.
3. Describe the basic algorithms used in control by Digital
Computer.

4. Discuss Sampling Rates and Aliasing Error.

D. Tennant

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