Process Control Fundamentals

Process Control is the active changing of the process parameters based on the results of process monitoring and used in continuous production, manufacturing, and other fields. In this session, you will learn about:

• The importance and basic elements of process control such as set-point, manipulating variable and etc.;

• Which disciplines use the process control and

• The benefits of process control parameters

After talking about the significance of process control and its fundamentals we can go over the elements of process control that you will see in this lecture with:

• The major components of process control;

• Proportional, integral, and derivative actions in the control system and

• Type of the sensors

Elements of process control are really necessary so that talking about them in separate lectures can be beneficial for a better understanding. This session is dedicated to:

• Transmitters and their various signal detections;

• Types of actuators and

• General illustration of process control loops

Since you have learned the core elements of process control, we can go over the different control systems that are used in the industry. In this lecture, you will learn about:

• Classification of control systems;

• The comparison between open and closed-loop control systems and

• Feedback and Feedforward controls and their disparity

Since you have learned the core elements of process control, we can go over the different control systems that are used in the industry. In this lecture, you will learn about:

• Classification of cascade control system

• The comparison between open and closed-loop control systems and

• The disparity between cascade and feedback & feedforward control systems

This will a bit theoretical part, but knowing what happens in the background calculations of control systems will be helpful to visualize the control procedure. In this lesson, you will learn about:

• Fourier and Laplace transforms and the difference between them;

• How the calculations are carried out in Laplace transform and

• The various functions in Laplace transform

Since we have mentioned the necessity of automatic control systems of proportional, integral, and derivative in the second lesson of this chapter, we can go over the details of them. This video aims to deliver brief information about:

• How the PID controllers act in different modes;

• Proportional, integral, and derivative modes and their pros/cons and

• Their combinations, such as P+I, P+I+D and etc.