Process Trainer is an educational package that mimics industrial process engineering. The fully integrated, selfcontained teaching apparatus gives a comprehensive range of process control experiments, from basic to advanced. Using water as the working fluid, the equipment allows safe, practical experiments on control of flow, liquid level, temperature and pressure. Students can study each of these separately or in combinations.
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Continuous flow reactors are common unit operations in chemical processing plants. Chemical Reactor Process Trainer with PLC is a reduced scale plant that demonstrates continuous flow, exothermic chemical reaction. They are found throughout the petroleum, petrochemical and numerous other industries.
Reactants are hydrocarbon fuel and atmospheric oxygen; products are combustion flue gasses
The entire trainer is controlled from a DCS or PLC computer interface with custom designed software and control configuration.
The process has instrumentation to provide for reactant flow rate control, product gas analysis, temperature and pressure indication and an interlocking safety system.
This gives the student the opportunity to gain real operating experience focusing on both the process of exothermic chemical reactions and on control strategy.
Objectives:
Impact of varying operating conditions of reactant flow, excess or limiting reactants and residence time
Control experience on a Programmable Logic Controller
Continuous flow reactor operation and measurement
Process control concepts for manual and automatic operation
Material balances
Equipment start-up and operating procedures.
Biodiesel Process Trainer PLC Controls provides students the opportunity to gain real operating experience focusing on all aspects of biodiesel production the chemical process, control strategy, and management of the chemical process. The Biodiesel Process Trainer is a pilot-scale plant that demonstrates both batch and semi-continuous conversion of vegetable oil feedstock into biodiesel. The Biodiesel Process Trainer has instrumentation to provide for control of all process flows, temperatures and levels.
Function:
The rate of reaction is influenced by several factors including temperature and degree of mixing. The Biodiesel Process Trainer is designed and built for instructional use and includes many student-friendly features. The conversion of triglycerides into biodiesel is normally performed by base-catalyzed conversion. This reaction takes place at modest conditions of temperature and pressure and can produce conversion rates over 98%. This highly flexible process trainer incorporates various commercially available mixing technologies and process configuration options to allow for the comparative analysis of the technologies currently available in the biodiesel industry. The main reaction vessel is constructed from industrial glass allowing the students to visually monitor the trans-esterification process.
