PMC Lab

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The Process Modelling & Control lab currently contains five working rigs. The Opto 22 unit is usually refered to as the sixth rig. Equipment on the rigs (and in the lab) is discussed in the lab equipment section. The lab manual is available here. New users wanting to set up computers and software should have a look at this page.

Rigs

For the rigs in the Tribology labs, see this page.

Acetone Flashing

The acetone flashing rig is a four by four control problem. You can find the documentation here.

pH Loop

This rig demonstrates pH control. You can find the documentation here.

Temperature Control

The temperature control rig was rebuilt by Ivan and David in 2005. You can find the documentation here.

Level and Flow

Level and Flow is one of our favourite rigs. You can find the documentation here.

Distillation Columns

There are two distillation columns in the chemical engineering laboratories;

Slug Flow

This unit, copied from a setup done by Ingvald Bårdsen under supervision of Espen Storkaas and Heidi Sivertsen at NTNU, models severe slugging behaviour in a pipeline/riser system.

Dual Fluidised Bed System

This unit, intended to produce bio-oils from woody biomass, is still under construction by Stephen Swart and Prof. Heydenrych. It is intended to be completed by 2012, with the design outlined in Swart (2010). The documentation can be found here.

Ball and Plate Control Rig

This rig is a rapid prototyping and test unit for control systems, consisting of the task of stabilisation and reference tracking of an open loop unstable system.

Quadcopter

Implement an Arduino Uno based control system to stabilise the quadcopter in a hover position.

Lab equipment

Equipment for the rigs are (should be) documented on their respective pages. Some additional equipment in the PMC lab include;

Contact Details

Burkett Valves

Opto Controls

Mantech Electronics