Advanced Process Control Trainers

Air Flow Control Trainer

Model No: SE122

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Air Flow Control Trainer is designed to provide students with hands-on experience on how an air flow loop can be controlled using a microprocessor based controller.

This unit consists of:

• Mild steel receiver tank and buffer tank
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Instrument for flow rate, pressure and temperature measurements

Experimental capabilities:

• Volumetric air flow measurement using rotameter and orifice meter
• Mass flow measurement with pressure and temperature compensation
• Closed loop P, PI, PID control
• Loop tuning for optimum control
• Control valve sizing calculation
• Fault simulation

Air Pressure Control Trainer

Model No: SE121

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Air Pressure Control Trainer is designed to provide student with hands-on experience on how a pressure loop can be controlled using a microprocessor-based controller.

This unit consists of:

• Mild steel receiver tank and pressure control tank
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Pressure transmitter

Experimental capabilities:

• Closed loop P, P1, PID flow control
• Loop tuning for optimised control
• Control valve sizing
• Fault simulation

Air Temperature Control Trainer SE124

Model No: SE124

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Air Temperature Control Trainer is designed to provide students with hands-on experience on how a temperature loop of an air heat exchanger can be controlled using a microprocessor based controller.

This unit consists of:

• Air heater / exchanger
• Mild steel receiver tank
• Controller with recorder
• Instrumentation for pressure and temperature measurements

Experimental capabilities:

• Air temperature measurement using RTD sensor and thermocouple
• ON/OFF, P, PI, PID, auto selector control
• Loop tuning for optimum control
• Fault simulation

Air Pressure Control Trainer (Model: SE121), Air Flow Control Trainer (Model:SE122) and Air Temperature Control Trainer (Model:SE124) can be interconnected to form a bigger plant.

Analytical Control Trainer 

Model No: SE105

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Analytical Control Trainer consists of an acid-alkali process anda self-contained chemical waste treatment process. It is designed to study the principles of measurement of typical industrial analytical parameters such as pH, ORP, conductivity and issolved oxygen. This plant also allows for the control of pH and conductivity.

This unit consists of:

• Process tanks with process pumps
• Controller with recorder
• Instrumentation for pH, ORP, dissolved oxygen and conductivity measurements
• Controller with recorder

Experimental capabilities:

• pH, ORP, conductivity and dissolved oxygen measurement
• ON/OFF, PID, self-tuning, non-linear gain for pH control
• Effects of air sparging and variation of mixer speed on DO measurement
• Fault simulation

Boiler Heating Batching Control Trainer

Model No: SE107

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Boiler Heating Batching Control Trainer consists of a liquid based process system design to study a simulated boiler drum producing hot water to heated the product water from a batching tank via a shell and tube heat exchanger.

This unit consists of:

• Process tanks with process pumps
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Shell and tube heat exchanger
• Instrumentation for pressure, level, differential pressure and
  temperature measurements

Experimental capabilities:

• 1, 2, and 3 elements boiler drum level control
• Single and cascade heat exchanger temperature control
• Level tank control
• Fault simulation

Continuous Distillation Column with Process Control

Model No: SE999

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Continuous Distillation Column is designed and constructed with the intention of exploring the behaviour and performance of various control strategies employed in a distillation process.

This unit consists of:

• Distillation column with reboiler
• Stainless steel feed tank and product tanks
• Condenser with reflux drum
• Feed pump
• Product pumps
• Vacuum pump

Experimental capabilities:

• Determination of number of theoretical stages
• Effect of reflux ratio
• Various control strategies for level, flow, temperature as well as advaned control strategies for cascade, feedforward and optimization studies
• Various control strategies to optimise the distillation of binary and complex mixtures typically found in petrochemical refineries

Experimental Stand for Ratio Control

Model No: SE113

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Experimental Stand for Ratio Control is designed to introduce students to ratio control in relation to a single loop flow control.

This unit consists of:

• Stainless steel sump tank
• Circulation pump
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Orifice flow meter with differential pressure transmitter

Experimental capabilities:

• Closed loop P, P1, PID flow control
• Loop tuning for optimum control
• Ratio control
• Fault simulation

Flow and Level Control Trainer

Model No: SE665

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Level and Flow Control Trainer is designed to provide students with a better understanding on control studies of level and flow control. It can also be coupled with a flow metering loop to enable cascade control studies.

This unit consists of:

• Stainless steel sump tank and level control tank
• Circulation pump
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Orifice differential pressure transmitter

Experimental capabilities:

• Level transmitter calibration
• Open/Closed tank level measurement
• Closed loop P, PI, PID control
• Level and flow cascade control studies
• Loop tuning on level/flow control loop

Flow and Pressure Control Trainer

Model No: SE664

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Flow and Pressure Control Trainer is designed for demonstration of the functionality of microprocessor based controller. The equipment exhibits a realistic working environment of a typical flow process using various types of industrial grade instruments and control strategy.

This unit consists of:

• Stainless steel sump tank and calibration tank
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Instrumentation for flow rate and pressure measurements

Experimental capabilities:

• Flowmeter measurement and accuracy check
• Closed loop P, PI, PID control
• Flow and pressure cascade control
• Split range control

Flow and Temperature Control Trainer

Model No: SE666

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Flow and Temperature Control Trainer is designed to provide students with a better understanding on how flow and temperature processes can be controlled.

This unit consists of:

• Stainless steel hot and cold water tank
• Circulation pump
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Plate heat exchanger
• Flow meter
• Temperature transmitter

Experimental capabilities:

• Closed loop P, PI, PID control
• Flow/Temperature cascade control
• Loop tuning on flow/temperature control loop

Heat Exchanger Control Trainer

Model No: SE134

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Heat Exchanger Control Trainer is designed to provide students with hands-on experience on how product temperature of a shell and tube heat exchanger can be controlled using a microprocessor based controller.

This unit consists of:

• Stainless steel hot and cold water tank
• Shell and tube heat exchanger
• Circulation pump
• Control valve
• Controller with recorder
• Instrumentation for temperature and flow rate measurements

Experimental capabilities:

• Control valve sizing
• Closed loop ON/OFF, P, PI, PID control
• Loop tuning for optimum control
• Fault simulation
• Flow/Temperature cascade control

Process Trainer For Saline Solution Production

Model No: SE162

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Process Trainer For Saline Solution Production is developed primarily for teaching and research purpose. This process trainer is a small scale version of process plant that produces saline solution. It is used for produce saline solution in semi batch operation. The concentration of sodium chloride in the final product shall be made controllable to the user and shall be varied continuously ranging from 0.2%v/v to 1.0%v/v.

Experimental capabilities:

• To demonstrate the process in production of saline solution
• To demonstrate the determination of controller use in process
• To demonstrate open loop control
• To demonstrate closed loop control

Steam Condensation Unit

Model No: SE182

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SOLDAS®️ IR4.0   SOLCAL®️ IR4.0

Description:

This Steam Condensation Unit is designed to allow students to have an overview on the effect of cooling water flowrate on the condensation of steam. The flow of cooling water will be regulated by using a control valve with PID input. Fuzzy Logic controller is optional for the equipment with additional requirement MATLAB and Fuzzy Logic Toolbox.

This unit consists of:

• Sell and tube heat exchanger
• Steam generator
• Control valve

Experimental capabilities:

• Effect of cooling water flowrate on the condensation of steam