Duration: 1 Day Classroom or 8 hours Online
Audience: Process Control Engineers, Application Engineers, Analyzer Technicians, DCS technicians, Instrument Engineers, and Supervisors.
Prerequisites: Some plant experience and/or a 3-year associate's diploma in a technical field.
Course Material: Temperature training slides and certificate of completion.

This comprehensive training course covers the fundamental principles of industrial temperature monitoring in industrial processes. The course explores different temperature definitions and units (Kelvin, Celsius, Fahrenheit), basic measurement principles including heat transfer mechanisms, and various temperature sensing technologies. Students will learn about resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), thermistors, semiconductor temperature probes, thermocouples, infrared temperature measurement for industry principles, pyrometers, infrared cameras, dilatation temperature principles, bimetal thermometers, liquid thermometers, and pressure thermometers. The course includes practical aspects of sensor selection, installation, calibration, and troubleshooting to help students conceive, design, and implement new process control temperature measurement applications using various industrial temperature sensors and instrumentation systems.

At the end of the course, attendees will clearly understand important concepts about process temperature instrumentation principles and their industrial applications. Attendees will be able to select best temperature sensors for industrial processes for different applications, understand advantages of RTD over thermocouple and wiring configurations, work with thermocouples and cold junction compensation, apply applications of thermistors in process control and IC temperature probe technologies, understand infrared temperature measurement for industry principles for non-contact temperature measurement methods, perform how to calibrate a temperature sensor and troubleshooting temperature measurement errors, and compare difference between RTD and thermocouple measurement methods.

Attendees will have the skills and knowledge to develop new applications using various temperature-sensing technologies, save costs using modern industrial temperature detection technology, and implement new measurement schemes faster and with lower costs using industrial temperature calibration techniques.

The following topics are covered in this course:

• Different Temperature Definitions and Units
• Basic Measurement Principles and Heat Transfer
• Resistance Temperature Principle (RTD)
• Thermistors (NTC/PTC)
• Semiconductor (IC) Temperature Probes
• Thermo-electrical Principle
• Thermocouple Technologies
• InfraRed Radiation Principle
• Pyrometer Applications
• InfraRed Camera Systems
• Dilatation Temperature Principle
• Bimetal Temperature Probes
• Liquid Thermometer Systems
• Pressure Thermometer Applications
• Signal Transmission Methods
• Industrial temperature calibration techniques
• Troubleshooting temperature measurement errors
• Temperature Sensor Selection Criteria