DAY ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Basic concepts
- Definitions
- Overview of pressure, level, temperature
and flow
- Overview of valves
PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Sources
- Transducers and elements
- Specifications
- Installation issues
LEVEL MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Simple sight glasses
- Buoyancy tape systems
- Hydrostatic pressure
- Ultrasonic measurement
- Radiation measurement
- Electrical measurement
- Density measurement
- Installation issues
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Thermocouples
- Resistance temperature detectors
- Thermistors
- Liquid-in-glass, filled, bimetallic
- Pyrometers
- Installation issues
DAY TWO
FLOW MEASUREMENT
- Principles
- Differential pressure flowmeters
- Open channel flow measurement
- Oscillatory flow measurement
- Magnetic flow measurement
- Positive displacement
- Ultrasonic flow measurement
- Mass flow measurement
- Installation issues
CONTROL VALVES
- Principles
- Control valve types
- Selection
- Characteristics / trim
- Noise and cavitation
- Actuators and positioners
- Installation issues
PROCESS CONSIDERATIONS
- Transmitters
- Noise
- Material of construction
INTEGRATION OF THE SYSTEM
- Individual instrument error and total error
- Testing and commissioning
SUMMARY, QUESTIONS, OPEN FORUM AND CLOSING