Vales, Actuators and Steam Traps: Sizing, Selection, Operation and Maintenance

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Vales, Actuators and Steam Traps: Sizing, Selection, Operation and Maintenance Course
Introduction:
The Control Valves & Actuators training course is an engaging and comprehensive program that spans five days. It highlights the essential features and characteristics of control valves and actuators. Valves and actuators are integral to numerous industrial processes globally, and a thorough understanding and effective utilization of these components are vital for efficient operations and control. This course is specifically designed to equip participants with practical thinking skills when it comes to valve and actuator installations. It enables them to carefully consider, select, and install the most suitable equipment for specific applications.
Course Objectives:
Upon the successful completion of this course, each participant will be able to:-
- Comprehend the inner operation of the most commonly utilized valve types
- Decide on the best valve to use, for specific applications
- Determine the most cost-effective valve size
- Determine the best device to drive and operate an assortment of valves
- Get control valves to operate optimally in the field, using an assortment of techniques
Who Should Attend?
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Key instrumentation personnel involved in valve maintenance
- Senior management and staff responsible for valve and actuator selection
- The mechanical and electrical staff that come into contact with valves
- Process control engineers requiring a high plant availability, often affected by valves
- Designers, industrial engineers, and staff responsible for plant safety
- All personnel with a vested interest in applications that require/utilize valves
Course Outlines:
Valve Principals, Purposes, Types, Control Signals, and Flow Conditions
- Valve Principles, Valve Purposes, and Control Signals used with Valves
- Flow Conditions in and around Valves
- Reynolds Numbers
- Cavitation and Flashing and How This Influences Valve Selection
- Associated Equipment - Pertinent to Valves
- Definitions and Principles of Operation of the Major Types of Valves
Valve in P&IDs, Leakage, Valve Characteristics, and Valve Size Calculations
- Continuation of the Definitions and Principles of Operation of more Major Types of Valves
- Additional associated Equipment - Pertinent with Valves
- P&ID Diagrams associated with Valves
- Valve Leakage and Valve Leakage Rate Calculation
- Valve Inherent Characteristics and their importance once installed
- Performing Manual Calculations - for Valve Sizing
Valve Software, Actuators, Positioners, Cavitation & Noise Control & SIS
- Software Used to Size Control Valves
- Assorted Actuators and their Properties and Characteristics
- Valve Positioners
- Cavitation and Noise Control - in and around valves
- Valves and How They Fit into Pressure Relief and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
- Using Digital Controllers - with valves
3-term Controllers and Loop-tuning for Processes Containing Control Valves
- Understanding and Implementing the Right Controller Action - for fail-safe valves
- Understanding all of the Variables - associated with three-term control
- Open Loop Tuning - for controllers that act on control valve loops
- Closed-Loop Tuning - for controllers that act on control valve loops
- Trial and Error Tuning - to optimize control valve performance
Using Valves in Cascade, Ratio, Dead-Time Dominant, Non-Linear and PLC-Controlled Processes
- Setting-up a Cascade Loop - using a single valve and multiple controllers
- Setting-up a Ratio Loop - using a Single Valve and Multiple Process Variables (PVs)
- Dead Time Dominant Loops - how this affects the valve performance, and how this is corrected
- Using a Control Valve in a process that exhibits different responses in different zones