Location: Venue will be selected to minimise delegate travel

Who should attend: Practising engineers, technicians and managers who require a practical overview/introduction of Power Station C&I

Aims: To provide a basic appreciation of Power Station Control and Instrumentation.

Content and Method:

• Need for instrumentation

• Pressure
• Temperature
• Chemical
• Movement

• Integrated with other plant or not

• Need for transmitters
• "Smart" types
• Fieldbus etc
• Types of transmitter sensors

• Gas
• Liquid

• Types
• Distributed against centralised
• PLCs

• Cost advantages of distributed control on cabling
• Different types and applications
• Fibre-optic installations
• Digital Data transmission

• Centralised or distributed
• Need for power supply conditioning

• Setting up maintenance facilities

• Types of labour available

Course delivery will be by lectures and hands on in an interactive environment.

As each topic is covered the underlying philosophy and engineering and procedural issues will be explored in a participative manner.

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