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Process lab · Level 8 of 8

Site acceptance and fault finding

Level 8 of 8 in the Process lab: a free process control exercise at Advanced level, which takes about 1 hour 10 minutes. Run the site acceptance checklist on the finished skid, test the interlock and alarms, and find and fix two faults that were left in.

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Site acceptance and fault finding

The brief

Industry
Dairy
Task code
PRC-08
Difficulty
Advanced
Type of work
Fault-finding

Run the site acceptance checklist on the finished skid, test the interlock and alarms, and find and fix two faults that were left in.

What the test checks

The acceptance test marks the skills this level practises.

In this lab

  • P&ID, loop check and calibration bench
  • PID tuning with step tests
  • Alarms and an operator screen

Levels in the Process lab

Previous: Build an operator screen

  1. Read the P&ID
  2. Loop check
  3. Calibrate a pressure transmitter
  4. Tune the level loop
  5. Flow loop and control valve
  6. Alarm rationalisation
  7. Build an operator screen
  8. Site acceptance and fault finding

Part of the Process lab

Read the P&ID, check and calibrate instruments, tune loops and run a plant from a control room.

About the Process lab

Feeds these internships: Instrumentation and Process Control, Commissioning and Maintenance, SCADA and HMI, PLC Programming.