Installing, Calibrating, and Maintaining Electronic Instruments (TI25)

Length: 4.5 days
CEU Credits: 3.2
Course Hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Friday

 Description:

This popular course offers a combination of practical information and hands-on experience, covering proper installation, calibration, and maintenance of electronic instruments. You will examine characteristics of electronic control systems; techniques for installing electronic instruments; and procedures for configuring and calibrating transmitters, transducers, and controllers. Approximately 40% of your time in this course is spent working with equipment.

You will be able to:

• Employ proper safety practices during installation, calibration, and maintenance procedures
• Connect wiring in an electronic control loop
• Select and operate test equipment to measure electrical properties and calibrate instruments
• Calibrate electronic transmitters and controllers
• Recognize the importance of maintenance in the proper operation of instruments and control systems
• Use manufacturer's guidelines to configure instruments for specific process applications
• Explain installation considerations and practices for instruments and control systems
• Install electronic instruments using manufacturer's guidelines and ISA's recommended practices and procedures
• Use piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID), wiring, schematic, and installation detail drawings to install, calibrate, and verify proper operation of instruments
• Explain methods for reducing electrical hazards including intrinsically safe installation
• Describe the trend toward using fieldbus systems and personal computers in process control
• Explain the relevance of ISO 9000 standards to maintenance practices and procedures

You will cover:

• Loop Characteristics: Current Loop | Power Source
• Laboratory and Test Equipment: Multimeter | Process Calibrator
• Calibration and Configuration: Instrument Performance | Calibration Standards | Device Calibration | Calibration Documentation | Configuring Smart Transmitters
• Instrument Maintenance: Corrective | Preventive | Predictive
• Installation: Grounding and Isolation | Plant Conditions | Documentation
• Electronic Controllers: Control Strategies | Controller Maintenance | Digital Controllers
• Safety in Hazardous Locations: Location Classification | Explosion Proofing | Purging and Pressurization | Intrinsic Safety
• Trends: Personal Computers in Control | Fieldbus Technology

Classroom/Laboratory Exercises:

• Calculate, record, and graph instrument performance data to compare with specifications and identify errors
• Measure and record voltage, current, and resistance
• Calculate span and range values for various level measurement applications
• Calibrate differential pressure, RTD, thermocouple, and I/P transmitters and transducers
• Configure smart differential pressure and temperature transmitters
• Construct a simple feedback flow loop, perform a loop check, and tune the loop using trial and error tuning
• View a three-wire RTD demonstration and identify errors
• Configure and calibrate a single loop digital controller

A hand-held, scientific calculator should be brought to class.