process control

Instrumentation Sensors and Transducers – Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQ4)

The Answers have been provided at the end of the Questions: Q1. Which of the following sensors is used to…

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How Signal Processing Circuits are protected from high currents & voltages

Protection against high currents and voltages is a very important requirement for signal processing circuits. A high current can be…

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Basic Features of Foundation Fieldbus (FF)

Foundation fieldbus (FF) and Profibus are the two most universal serial data bus formats that are used for interfacing between…

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Features of Stepper Motors & How they are applied in Industrial Control

A stepper motor is a permanent magnet or variable reluctance DC motor that has the following characteristics: It is able…

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How Servo Motors are used in Process Control

Servo motors are continuous motion mechanisms that use feedback signals to provide position and velocity control in a closed loop…

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What is a Smart Sensor?

A smart sensor is the integration of a sensor with an analogue to digital converter (ADC), a processor and digital…

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Basic Features of Modern PID Controllers

Most modern PID controllers have the following features: Manual versus automatic modeOutput trackingSetpoint trackingAlarm capabilitiesProcess variable (PV) characterization and dampingSetpoint…

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Direct Digital Control (DDC)

In direct digital control (DDC) a single computer is able to carry out PID control for multiple loops at the…

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P&IDs and Loop Diagrams

Process and Instrument Diagrams (P&IDs), also called Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and Loop diagrams are construction and documentation drawings that…

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Ratio Control

In some processes, it is a common requirement for two flows to be kept in precise ratio to each other…

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