| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1 (see Timetable) |
| Old unit code |
ENGT3320, ENGT3320 |
| Outcomes |
Students are able to understand principles involved in the measurement and control of industrial processes; become familiar with ISA standards, instruments and devices available for designing process control systems; understand and prepare technical design documentation; and gain understanding of PLCs and ladder programming, and implementation of control theory in industrial systems. |
| Content |
This unit covers transducers (temperature, pressure, flow, density, liquid level, viscosity etc.), advanced sensor device technology, typical control system actuators (pneumatic valves, electric valves, hydraulic valves, solenoids), converters, transmitters, ISA standards, process and instrumentation diagrams, examples of control loops, supervisory control, direct digital control, feedback and feedforward control, formulating process models, dynamic behaviour of low order and higher order systems, time delay systems, Laplace and Z-Transforms, frequency response analysis, PLCs ladder logic programming, implementation of controllers in PLCs, SCADA systems and process control system synthesis case studies. Guest lecturers from industry speak on various aspects of process instrumentation and control. |
| Assessment |
This comprises an examination, tests and laboratory reports. The examination assesses students' understanding of concepts covered in the subject. The tests, in addition to providing continuous assessment, help students to monitor their own progress during the semester. The laboratory reports assess students' understanding of PLCs and ladder logic programming skills.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete the course. |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: MATH2040 Engineering Mathematics or MATH2235 Mathematics E2C or equivalent |
| Advisable prior study: CITS1210 C Programming (or equivalent), block diagrams, signal flow graphs and stability from ELEC2305 Signals and Systems 2 (or equivalent) |
Contact hours—57 (lectures: 33 hrs; tutorials: 12 hrs; labs: 12 hrs)
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| Unit Outline | http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/elec/elec3320 |
| Unit web page |
http://student.ee.uwa.edu.au/units/elec3320
[Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2010.]
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| References | |
Anderson, N. A. Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control, 3rd edn: CRC Press 1998
Liptak, B. G. Instrument Engineers' Handbook Process Control, 3rd edn: CRC Press 1999
Liptak, B. G. Instrument Engineers' Handbook Process Measurement and Analysis, 4th edn: CRC Press 2003
Morris, A. S. Measurement and Instrumentation Principles: Butterworth-Heinemann 2001
Ogunnaike, B. A. and Ray, W. H. Process Dynamics Modeling and Control: OUP 1994
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