Process Control Trainer (3521)

  • Standard industrial grade components
  • Silk-screen diagrams on module
  • Temperature process with overheat protection
  • Digital temperature meter
  • Level comparator with adjustable hysteresis for on-off control
  • Solid state relay able to supply up to 50 watts to the heating element and able to modify output power to alter the process dynamics.
  • Adjustable process dynamics
  • Equipped for thermoelectric hot/cold process
  • Temperature transmitter to introduce the concept of zero and span adjustments
  • P.I.D. controller with low-pass filter, error detector, independent P, I and D amplifiers, summing amplifier and limiter and intergrator anti-reset.
  • Alarms capability, with selectable high/low alarm type and selectable latching/non-latching action.
  • DC source and DC voltmeter.
  • Triangle-wave generator
  • Noise generator to study the effect of noise and filtering in process control
  • Fault insertion capabilities
  • Easy interface with computer for data acquisition or direct digital control through standard 0 to 5 Vdc input and output voltages
  • System interfaces with Lab-Volt Process Control and Simulation Software (LVPROSIM), Model 3674, through the Lab-Volt I/O Interface, Model 9065.