LabVIEW - Teaching Aid for Process Control

Process Instrumentation deals with measurement and control process parameters to achieve the required quality. While teaching process related subjects, it is observed that students are not able to understand process equipment and controls associated with it theoretically. So to make the subjects understandable and interesting, simulation of processes are carried out with displays as used with distributed control system (DCS). Simulations are used across virtually in engineering to improve the development process and design quality, identify design errors earlier, cut down on physical prototypes, and reduce time to market. Here dryer, boiler control simulations are carried out to study dynamic behavior. Application software LabVIEW is used with control design and data logging with supervisory (DSC) module.