Introduction to the basic concepts and methods of design in the thermal process technique.

Acquisition of basic and applied knowledge in the field of Automation of industrial processes.

Basic concepts and principles of SAU. Types of response, ON/OFF and PID regulation, parameter settings. Characteristics, purpose and classification of sensors. Characteristics, purpose and classification of actuators (Asynchronous engineers – frequency regulation, one-way plants – control=. Basic hardware structure of PLC (purpose, classification, characteristics). Analogue and digital inputs and outputs (analogue: A/D and D/A conversion). Types of programming languages for PLC, basic organizational concepts and tasks. Types of data and types of variables in PLC programming. Types of instruction in the programming language ST – basic characteristics, functions and functional blocks. Examples of the programming code. Basic tasks of SCADA software. Processing of the obtained data in the SCADA system. Trends. Display of the monitoring system and interaction with the display. Alarms and events in the SCADA system. Supervision (indirect) control. Access rights and fields of responsibility in the SCADA system. Control centers in the SCADA system.

Lectures: Computing, laboratory and computer-laboratory practice, Consultations. Knowledge testing: Practical part grade – driven and independent solving of 10 obligatory problems; Theoretical part grade – in the oral form. Final grade is the arithmetic mean of theoretical and practical part of the examination.