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Process Control and Instrumentation

 


Who Should Attend

Water and wastewater facility operators and maintenance personnel, particularly, anyone interested in understanding the fundamentals of process control instrumentation systems, their components, and how they are supposed to work will benefit from this workshop.

Workshop Description

This practical, easy to understand workshop will help you grasp the essentials of process control instrumentation systems used to control flow, pressure, level, temperature, and other parameters in water and wastewater facilities. The workshop provides practical insight into what process instrumentation does and how it applies to smooth and efficient facility operation and control. Participants will learn terminology, how to read instrument symbols, how to identify the parts of a control loop, the types of components and instruments used in process control systems, and their applications. The instructor will demonstrate and participants will have opportunities to use control devices.
 

Workshop Outline

First Day

  • Standards, forms and codes

  • Basic electrical review

  • Language and terminology

  • Sensors and their applications

  • Instrument communications

  • Control devices and communication

  • Human Machine Interface software (HMI)

  • Reading and understanding basical electrical drawings

Second Day

  • Floats, pressure, flow probes and limit switches

  • Flow, pressure, level, and water quality instruments

  • Flumes and weirs

  • Instrument calibrations

  • Design and implementation of a well and reservoir control system

Registration Fee includes

  • 1.4 CEU's

  • Workshop manual

  • Refreshments

  • Certificate of completion

Registration, Payment, Refund and Cancellation Policy - Please read carefully!

The last 4 digits of the participant's Social Security Number and full birth date is required.  This information is used to create a unique key for each student.  Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.  Payment or purchase order must be received at the time of registration.  A full refund will be made for cancellations received 10 days before the workshop.  No refund will be made for cancellations received less than 10 days before the workshops.  Substitutions made less than ten (10) days prior to the workshop incur a $35 processing fee.

CEU Policy:

CEU are awarded for successful completion.  Instances of partial attendance, tardiness or leaving early will result in NO CEU being awarded.


 

 

 

 

 

Washington Environmental Training Center
12401 SE 320th St, Mail Stop WW
Auburn, Washington 98092-3699
In Wash. State 800.562.0858
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