Process control lab

The purpose of this lab is to provide understanding of fundamental concepts and principles in process control. We will also get acquainted with the different types of control valves and types of controllers used in industries.

Prior to the widespread adoption of electrical and electronic controls, buildings often used pneumatic control systems. Large and powerful compressors drove 3psi to 15psi pneumatic signals throughout a plant and these pneumatic lines connected to pneumatically controlled valves and pneumatically controlling valves in order to drive proportional controls and actuators throughout the building, all powered from compressed air.