The Learning Center, 43-82 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY (beginning January 1993); and other company locations in the New York Metropolitan area.
Length:
40 hours (1 week).
Dates:
April 1997 - February 2007.
Instructional delivery format:
Traditional classroom model
Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: explain principles of pneumatic instrumentation and control theory and apply these principles to the calibration and troubleshooting of pneumatic control systems in a power plant environment.
Instruction:
Major topics include: automatic controls; physical laws applying to pneumatic instrumentation, static fluids, dynamic fluids, and the conversion of units; operation of pneumatic controllers including the percentage gauges, differential pressure to pressure transmitter, and proportional plus reset (two mode) controller; transferring a process from automatic to manual operation and reverse; calibration, and operation of a closed loop negative feedback control system; operation of pneumatic control simulators; safety practices.
Credit recommendation:
In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category 1 semester hour in Electromechanical or Mechanical Technology (12/98 revalidation) (1/04 revalidation).
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