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Dec 26, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MT 241 System Calibration and Standards Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 2 Credits: 2
Presents the why’s and how’s for organizing, modifying, and improving the operation of industrial calibration and repair. Covers examination of the standards and criteria for evaluating a process control system or proposed laboratory. Offers a combination of practical information and hands-on experience, covering proper installation, calibration, and maintenance of electronic instruments. Builds on the characteristics of electronic control systems, including techniques for installing electronic instruments; and procedures for configuring and calibrating transmitters, transducers, and controllers in process control systems.
Prerequisite: ELT 100 or ELT 131 ; and MT 215 ; or consent of instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.) Student Learning Outcomes:
- Employ industry standard 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.
- Explain the importance of maintenance in the correct 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 correct operation of instruments.
- Explain methods for reducing electrical hazards including use of 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.
Content Outline
- 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
- Purging and pressurization
- Intrinsic safety
- Trends
- Personal computers in control
- Fieldbus technology
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