Instrumentation and Process Control

Code:

L.BIO034

Acronym:

CPIN

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Engineering Sciences

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Bioengineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L.BIO	21	Syllabus	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The fundamental objective of this course is to develop competences on modeling, analysys and design of automatic control systems for physical/chemical/biological processes. As a complement, it is exepected that the students will gain basic knowledge on instrumentation associated to automatic control -  sensors,  controllers, and final control elements - and on concpets of industrial automation.

Learning outcomes and competences

A student, after successfully concluding this course, should be able to:

• Design and tune classic controllers according to given performance criteria.
• Design and tune some advanced control strategies, performing a critical analysis of their pertinence.
• Identify the main instrumentation used in process control of physical/chemical/biological processes.
• Recognize the different types of idustrial communications and levels of industrial automation.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The main topics in this course are:

1. Review of transfer function concept.
2. Closed loop control (feedback).
3. Dynamic behavior of closed loop control. Stability analysis.
4. Controler tuning; criteria and methods.
5. Controller design based on internal model control.
6. Feedforward control based on dynamic and steady state models.
7. Ratio control.
8. Advanced control startegies: cascade control, time delay compensation control and split-range control.
9. Representation of control systems using P&I diagrams.
10. Industrial instrumentations for process control: sensores and transmiters, controllers, final control elements. 
11. Industrial automation.

Mandatory literature

Dale E. Seborg, Thomas F. Edgar, Duncan A. Mellichamp; Process dynamics and control. ISBN: 0-471-00077-9

Complementary Bibliography

B. Wayne Bequette; Process control. ISBN: 0-13-353640-8

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching will be based on presential classes for presentation and discussion of concepts and study cases. Software tools will be used for computer-based learning. Pratical exercises will take place using real PID control systems.

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Process engineering > Process control

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	75,00
Teste	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Total:	50,00

Eligibility for exams

Do the works or tests along the semester and be present at one of the final exams.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification, CF, is given by:

CF = 0.25 x MT + 0.75 x EX

where MT is the average score of mini-tests taken in class and EX is the exam score.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Final exam.

Classification improvement

Each student may choose between doing the second exam ("recurso") in order to improve only the grade of the first exam, keeping the grade for the distributed evaluation, ou improve all grades, so that the final grade will be that of the second exam.