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Advanced Control Technologies in the Oil Downstream

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Status: Report
Course Number
TR-2-14
Title / Theme
Advanced Control Technologies in the Oil Downstream
Dates
2014.04.07〜2014.04.24
Objectives
To provide a wide range of knowledge regarding process control methods, including advanced control system, process optimization and latest instrumentation
Main Topics
Participants will acquire a wide range of knowledge, such as of regulatory control using DCS, RTO (real-time
optimization) and the latest instrumentation, including fieldbus technology and wireless systems.

1. Advanced control
    ・ PID and its tuning method
    ・ Control practice with DCS
    ・ DCS engineering
    ・ Advanced control with RTO

2. Latest instrumentation
    ・ Latest DCS functions
    ・ Alarm management
    ・ Fieldbus technology
    ・ Wireless systems
    ・ Safety systems
    ・ Instrument modernization

3. Visits to:
    ・ Instrument manufacturers
    ・ A refinery
Application Deadline
2014.02.03
Qualification
Engineers with a university degree and at least three years’experience in DCS-related work, instrument modernization, or process control, or those with equivalent qualifications
Project Report

Petroleum Industry in Japan; Outline of Information and Control Systems in Japan; PID Tuning Methods; Process Control Practice with Distributed Control System (DCS); Latest DCS and Instrumentation; Safety Instrumented System; Engineering Practice on DCS; Advanced Process Control; Process Optimization; Fieldbus Engineering; Modernization of Instrumentation

Host Country
Japan
Participating Countries
Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
Number of Participants
17
Site Visits
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Mitaka
Headquarters); Azbil Corporation (Shonan Factory);
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. (Aichi Refinery);
Emerson Japan, Ltd. (Mizushima Solution Center)
Others
* Further course details will be announced three (3) months before the start of the course.
Report (English)