ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 31 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
* Basic training on automation and control methods.
* Ability to pose, design and correctly specify simple control strategies, and understand more complex strategies proposed by specialists.
* Competence to diagnose and solve simple problems of the control system of a plant in operation.
* Ability to participate in the management of acquisition of instrumentation and control systems for process plants (request and evaluation of offers, discussion with system suppliers, etc.).
* Individual and group work.
* Verbal and written communication.
Theoretical:
* Introduction to process control.
* Diagrams P & I and blocks.
* Modeling and dynamic simulation.
* Controllers: PLC, PID.
* Control and supervision systems.
* Stability and controller adjustment.
Practical:
* Free software Scilab (Xcos): Studies about the dynamics of processes and instruments, dynamics of open / closed control circuits, effect of control parameters and tuning of controllers. AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.scilab.org
* Specific tools (demo version of Control Station): Dynamic simulation and adjustment of controllers, control of the following equipment: chemical reactor, heat exchanger, reactors in series, distillation column, etc.
Basic bibliography:
* OLLERO DE CASTRO, P.; FERNÁNDEZ CAMACHO, E. "Instrumentación y control de plantas químicos"; Ed. Síntesis, Madrid, 2012. ISBN: 9788497563345. Call No.: QUT 432, QUT 433.
Complementary bibliography:
* COUGHANOWR, D. R. "Process Systems Analysis and Control"; McGraw-Hill, USA, 1991. ISBN: 0-07-013212-7. Call No.: QUT 195.
* LUYBEN, W. L. "Plantwide process control"; 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, USA, 1999. ISBN: 0-07-006779-1. Call No.: QUT 2.
* OGATA, K. "Ingeniería de Control Moderna"; Prentice Hall, México, 2003. ISBN: 9788420536781. Call No.: QUT 203.
* OLLERO DE CASTRO, P.; FERNÁNDEZ CAMACHO, E. "Control e instrumentación de procesos químicos"; Ed. Síntesis, Madrid, 1997. ISBN: 84-7738-517-3. Call No.: QUT 243, QUT 244, QUT 245, QUT 246, QUT 247, QUT 248.
* STEPHANOPOULOS, G. "Chemical Process Control: An Introduction to Theory and Practice"; Prentice Hall International, USA, 1984. ISBN: 0-13-128596-3. Call No.:: QUT 132, QUT 133, QUT 134.
* Basic and general competences:
- CB1: That students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that starts from the base of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that imply knowledge coming from the vanguard of its field of study.
- CB2: That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
- CB3: That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant issues of social, scientific or ethical nature.
- CB4: That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized public.
- CB5: That the students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
- CG4: Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of Industrial Engineering in their specialty of Industrial Chemistry.
- CG5: Knowledge for the realization of measurements, calculations, valuations, appraisals, surveys, studies, reports, work plans and other analogous works.
* Transversal competences:
- CT1: Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
- CT2: Ability to use computer applications in the field of Industrial Engineering.
- CT3: Capacity to manage information.
- CT4: Ability to work as a team.
- CT5: Demonstrate ethical commitment.
- CT10: Ability to solve problems (included in CG4).
- CT11: Ability to make decisions (included in CG4).
- CT12: Capacity for autonomous learning (included in CG4).
- CT13: Ability to transmit knowledge (included in CG4).
- CT14: Demonstrate critical reasoning (included in CG4).
* Specific competences:
- CE12: Knowledge on the basics of automation and control methods.
- CE23: Ability to design, manage and operate simulation, control and instrumentation procedures of chemical processes.
The achievement of a basic training of the student will be through 31 hours of lectures (classroom activity of expository teaching), which will explain the theoretical foundations of the subject and solve exercises and problems that serve to apply theoretical knowledge. The active participation of the student will be sought, who will be encouraged to intervene continuously.
The seminars (3 hours) are presented as a face-to-face interactive teaching activity in which very diverse aspects such as auxiliary calculation techniques, debates on topics of interest related to the contents of the subject, handling of bibliographic sources, etc. can be approached.
Individual tutorials will be held to clarify particular problems of each student and tutorials with small groups (2 hours) to work on specific topics.
In addition, the students will carry out, obligatorily, a group work consisting of the search, elaboration of memory and presentation of the same on measurement sensors and / or final control elements.
There will be 15 hours of laboratory practices (in the computer room) with which students apply theoretical knowledge to practical cases using open source or free simulators (Scilab / Xcos and demo version of Control Station). The internships will be carried out individually and will be compulsory. At the end of the same will be delivered a memory that will be evaluated.
At all times, the Learning Management System (LMS) of the USC will be used as support for teaching.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing grades” will apply.
The evaluation of the subject is continuous with examination. The monitoring of learning is carried out through the presentation of practical cases and activities to be solved, in person or not, individually or by groups. We will proceed, in addition, to the realization of a final exam. The final grade of the student will consider both the result of the exam and that of all the activities carried out in the classroom and laboratory and the group work. Thus, the evaluation system will consist of the following sections:
1) Group work: up to 1.4 points; Minimum rating: 0.6 points.
* Personal initiative, the ability to work as a team and to face and solve problems that may arise, as well as the results achieved and their criticism will be valued.
* Competencies evaluated: CB1, CB2, CB4, CG5, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE12, CE23.
2) Seminars and group tutorials: up to 0.6 points; Minimum grade: 0.25 points.
* The interventions of the student and the resolution of the problems and questions that arise will be valued.
* Competencies evaluated: CB3, CB4, CB5, CG4, CT1, CE12, CE23.
3) Laboratory practices: up to 1.5 points; Minimum rating: 0.6 points.
* Laboratory practices will be carried out in the computer room. In them the students will apply the theoretical knowledge to practical cases using open source of free simulators (Scilab / Xcos and demo version of Control Station).
* Competencies evaluated: CB1, CB2, CG4, CG5, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE12, CE23.
4) Final exam:
* Theory: up to 2 points; Minimum grade: 0.8 points.
* Exercises and problems: up to 4.5 points; Minimum qualification: 1.8 points.
* Competences evaluated: CE12, CE23.
The student who presents himself / herself to the evaluable parts of the subject, and does not attend the final exam, will receive the grade of Suspense. In order for the qualifications to appear as Not Submitted, the student will not be able to take any of the evaluable tests.
In case of not passing the subject in the First Chance, the student will be evaluated in the Second Chance by means of a final examination of theoretical-practical contents of, at least, those sections in which the minimum qualification required was not achieved.
This subject is divided into 31 hours of lectures, 3 hours of seminars, 2 hours of group tutoring, 15 hours of laboratory practices and 4 hours for exams (55 hours in total). With all this it is estimated that the student must employ a total of 95 hours of personal work to complete a total of 150 hours dedicated to the subject.
It is important that the student tries to make the problem bulletins by himself to later solve the doubts and simultaneously, the teacher, to make a continuous follow-up of the evolution of the student in the subject.
It is essential the mastery of the balance of matter and energy, and of great importance the knowledge of the main basic operations in Chemical Engineering as well as the handling of Laplace Transforms to integrate linear differential equations. The "ideal" student for this subject is the one who has already studied the following subjects: Chemical Engineering I, Mathematics III, Chemical Engineering II, Mass Transfer and Chemical Reaction Engineering.
The subject is taught in the two official languages of the Autonomous Community.
Eugenio Fernandez Carrasco
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- eugenio.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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