Controlling the flow with Process Control Essentials

Process Control Essentials participants learn hands-on in pilot plant simulations.
Process Control Essentials participants learn hands-on in pilot plant simulations.

The Distributed Control System (DCS) is the heart of a liquid chemical production plant used in food processing, ethanol production, and specialty chemicals. Operators, engineers, and production managers use and monitor Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID) controllers to manage process variables that ensure quality, efficiency, and safety. 



Process Control Essentials is a workshop for industrial personnel who want to better understand tuning, optimizing, and troubleshooting  PID control loops.  Different process types, instrumentation, and control strategies will be explored with hands-on applications.  The workshop will be held August 2-3 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory. The two-day session is led by Hunter Flodman, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Practice, University of Nebraska Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; and Scott Harmeier, Process Optimization Manager, Archer Daniels Midland Company.


“This is an important training opportunity for operational personnel in the liquid chemical industry,” says Matthew Jorgensen, project specialist for the Nebraska MEP. “This is the seventh PCE workshop since 2016, and we draw registrants from across Nebraska as well as neighboring states. It’s a great collaboration between the College of Engineering, the MEP and the Nebraska Ethanol Board, which offers tuition reimbursement for Nebraska ethanol employees.”


For more details: https://go.unl.edu/processcontrol