Industrial Systems and Instrumentation
Process instrumentation and the industrial and building systems an experienced electrician installs: P&IDs and loop diagrams, pressure, level, flow and temperature measurement, control valves, calibration and loop checks, process control strategies, hazardous locations and intrinsic safety, solar PV, battery energy storage, EV charging, fire alarm and building automation interfaces, and standby generators and transfer switches.
ELEC-410 12 lessons · 5 h 1 min
Offered by HSM University · Electrician
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Describe continuous, batch and discrete processes and read P&IDs, ISA tag numbers and loop diagrams
- Select, range and install pressure and level instruments, including hydrostatic, radar and ultrasonic level measurement
- Apply flowmeter principles including square root extraction and magmeter grounding, and wire thermocouples and RTDs correctly
- Explain control valve characteristics, fail-safe action, positioners and output loop compliance, and other final control elements
- Install instrument cable with correct segregation and shield grounding, calibrate transmitters and perform loop checks
- Recognize cascade, feedforward, ratio, split range and override strategies, set controller action and tune loops in the field
- Classify hazardous locations, select protection methods and temperature classes, and verify intrinsically safe loops with entity parameters
- Design PV strings within voltage limits, select inverters and interconnections, and apply rapid shutdown and commissioning tests
- Compare battery chemistries, size energy storage, explain BMS functions and apply code and fire safety requirements
- Size EV charging circuits, interpret the control pilot, apply energy management and install and troubleshoot EVSE
- Wire and supervise fire alarm circuits, implement interfaces to building systems and support integrated testing
- Install and test standby generators and transfer switches, and assemble an integrated commissioning package
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 1 min total · final exam
- 1 Process control systems, P&IDs and loop drawings 25 min · quiz
- 2 Pressure and level measurement 25 min · quiz
- 3 Flow and temperature measurement 27 min · quiz
- 4 Control valves, actuators and other final control elements 25 min · quiz
- 5 Instrument installation, calibration and loop checks 24 min · quiz
- 6 Process control strategies and loop tuning 24 min · quiz
- 7 Hazardous locations and intrinsic safety 24 min · quiz
- 8 Solar photovoltaic systems 26 min · quiz
- 9 Battery energy storage systems 25 min · quiz
- 10 Electric vehicle charging equipment 26 min · quiz
- 11 Fire alarm interfaces and building automation 25 min · quiz
- 12 Standby power, transfer switches and capstone 25 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Process instrumentation and the industrial and building systems an experienced electrician installs: P&IDs and loop diagrams, pressure, level, flow and temperature measurement, control valves, calibration and loop checks, process control strategies, hazardous locations and intrinsic safety, solar PV, battery energy storage, EV charging, fire alarm and building automation interfaces, and standby generators and transfer switches.