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Practical Process Control System Questions & Answers – 4

Last updated: June 22, 2018 11:11 am
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Consider this control system, set up to maintain the temperature of a chemical reactor vessel at a constant (“setpoint”) value. The reactor’s source of heat is a steam “jacket” where hot steam is admitted through a motor-operated (M) control valve (TV) according to the temperature inside the reactor sensed by the temperature transmitter (TT):

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While doing some clean-up work near the reactor, you receive a frantic call from the operator on your two-way radio. He says that the controller (TIC) is registering a temperature of 186 oF, which is 11 degrees higher than the setpoint of 175 oF. A temperature this high could ruin the product inside the reactor. He wants you to check the temperature indicator on the side the reactor (TI) and let him know what it reads.

You look at the TI, and see that it registers a temperature of 172 oF, which is a bit too cold if anything, not too hot. You immediately report this to the operator using your radio, who then asks you to check out the system to see why he’s getting a false reading on the controller display.

Fortunately, you have your multimeter and tool set with you, so you proceed to the temperature transmitter to measure the milliamp signal it is outputting. Removing a cover from a round junction box on the conduit where the transmitter’s wires are routed, you see a terminal block inside with a 1N4001 rectifying diode placed in series with the circuit:

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Setting your multimeter to measure milliamps, you connect the red and black test leads across the diode.

This shorts past the diode, forcing all the current to go through the meter instead of the diode, allowing you to “break in” to the 4-20 mA circuit without having to physically break a wire connection anywhere. Making a mental note to thank your instrumentation instructor later for showing you this trick, you see that your multimeter registers 15.683 mA.

Given a calibrated temperature transmitter range of 100 to 200 degrees F, determine what this current measurement tells you about the location of the problem in this temperature control loop, and explain how you made that determination.

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  1. Why is it important for technicians to be able to easily convert milliamp signal values into corresponding process variable (PV) values?
  2. How does the diode perform this useful function of allowing current measurement without breaking the circuit?
  3. Supposing there were no diode in this loop circuit, how would you suggest we measure the transmitter’s output current?
  4. Is it possible that the fault in this system could be something to do with the control valve? Why or why not?

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