On completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the health and safety implications of working with process control systems
• Basic Concepts of Hazardous Areas
• Area classification, Material & temperature classification
• Standards in Hazardous Areas
• Protection Methods (including explosion proof, intrinsic safety, increased safety & others)
• Fieldbus in hazardous areas
• Labeling & Certification
• Introduction to SIS
• Hazards, Risks & their analysis
• Failures & Reliability
• Safety Integrity Level (SIL)
• SIS Standards
• SIS in practice
• SIS Testing & Maintenance
• Identify the various methods of signal transmission
• Understand the equipment used in
  
  • Current loops (process meters, trip amplifiers, transmitters, current repeaters, chart recorders)
  • Temperature measurement (RTDs, thermocouples, etc)
  • Pressure measurement (bourdon gauges, air and electrical dp cells)
  • Level measurement (bubblers, pressure cells, ultrasonic, load cells)
  • Flow measurement (orifice plates, mag-flow meters, mass-flow meters, weirs, flumes, etc)
  • Output devices (flow control valves, valve positioners, I to P converters)


• Correctly use a range of industrial calibration equipment (current sources, thermocouple and RTD simulators, digital pressure indicator/calibrators, HART communicators).
• Understand the principles of turbidity, density, pH, proximity and weight measurement.