Actuator technology in the process automation of process plants

The Lecture

The lecture covers the fundamentals and procedures for the description, design and control of process plants. Special focus lies on control valves required for automation in process engineering.

Organisational Matters

TUCan 16-10-5190-vl Actuators in Process Automation of Chemical Plants
Course Master 4CP – Wahlpflichtbereich III
Semester summer
Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Kiesbauer
Examination summer: oral / written examination
winter: oral / written examination
Contact Niklas Puff
Consultation-hours by arrangement

  • Process automation
  • Processes and components of process engineering
  • Process plants
  • What are processes?
  • Control system and process control
  • Fluid system and pumps
  • Sensors or measurement technology
  • Actuators or control devices
  • Regulation and control
  • Historical development
  • Methods
  • Devices and systems for process control
  • Process control system
  • Programmable logic controllers
  • Process controllers and industrial controllers
  • Control room; control strategies
  • Controllers without auxiliary power
  • Standards and approvals (explosion protection, environment, noise, etc.)
  • Planning
  • Installation and commissioning of plants
  • Communication in the field: conventional, digital (HART, field buses)
  • Process measurement (sensors): pressure, flow, temperature, level
  • Process analysis
  • Control technology (actuators)
  • Actuators
  • Valve types
  • Fundamentals of fluid mechanics
  • Design of valves
  • Flow behavior (incompressible, compressible and multiphase media)
  • Arising forces
  • Sound specific issues and requirements
  • Actuators
  • Positioners
  • Structure
  • Control behavior and requirements
  • Attachment parts
  • Interaction with the process control and the entire plant
  • PID control
  • Other control concepts
  • Safety circuit
  • Antisurge valves
  • Rotary drives for pumps

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