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Design Criteria in Instrumentation Engineering

A Crucial Component of the Oil & Gas Industries

Design Criteria in Instrumentation Engineering
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

12-16 May 2025
Dubai
$5,950
03-07 Nov 2025
Dubai
$5,950
23-27 Mar 2026
Dubai
$5,950
11-15 May 2026
Dubai
$5,950
03-07 Aug 2026
Dubai
$5,950
02-06 Nov 2026
Dubai
$5,950

ONLINE

13-17 Apr 2026
Online
$3,950
01-05 Jun 2026
Online
$3,950
12-16 Oct 2026
Online
$3,950
Certificate
  • An Coventry Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course

Training Overview

Training Overview

Take advantage of an exceptional opportunity to attend Coventry Academy's 5-day training course, "Design Criteria in Instrumentation Engineering." This course is specifically tailored for the oil and gas industries, focusing on the critical aspects of instrumentation design that impact plant efficiency. Proper design of instrumentation equipment for measurement and control is vital for both operational efficiency and safety.

The course emphasizes selecting and integrating plant instrumentation components effectively. It covers the entire process from selection and documentation to classification and final project management, ensuring relevance to the delegates' working environments.

Course Features:

  • Essential instrumentation design documentation (including data sheets, schedules, P&IDs)
  • Control philosophy related to selected instrumentation
  • Equipment and instrumentation tagging philosophy
  • Hazardous area classification and certification requirements
  • Selection and sizing of instrumentation and final control elements (valves)
  • Project management principles

What are the goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Assist in crucial decisions for instrument design and selection
  • Interpret drawing and diagrams related to newly designed instrumentation
  • Have a full understanding of the various process control strategies and how to implement them
  • Implement hazardous area zones, and select appropriate instrumentation and equipment for them
  • Manage a project appropriately, from design to handover

Who is this Training Course for?

It is irrelevant whether delegate instrumentation design knowledge and experience ranges from novice to advanced. The workshop starts from basic principles, and builds up, with the emphasis on delegate participation. Instructor guidance is delivered on a personal level, and delegates are encouraged to ask as many questions as necessary.

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Instrumentation, electrical, mechanical, process and other engineers, specialists and staff
  • Management
  • Design teams
  • Budgeting and financial staff
  • Team leaders, supervisors and foremen

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This training course starts off from basics and works its way through to the final management of the project. None-the-less, it is presented in such a way that all delegates (regardless of background) feel comfortable from the very beginning. No-one is left behind, and the instructor takes pride in guiding all delegates along the way, with personal assistance, where required.

Delegates are encouraged to keep an open mind and to immerse themselves in all exercises and discussions, to ensure that maximum learning takes place. Preference will always be given to applications and examples that tie up with the working environment encountered by the delegates. At least 50% of the course is made up of demonstrations/discussions/simulations/exercises.

The Course Content

Day One: Signals, FDS, Vendors Interaction & P&IDs
  • Understanding instrumentation signals
  • Understanding process diagrams (including block, flow and where the P&ID fits in)
  • Functional Design Specification (FDS) and drawing standards
  • Vendor pre-qualification, interaction and quotation request
  • Tag numbering and naming conventions
  • Reading and creating P&IDs, including assorted P&ID symbology
Day Two: Instrumentation, Electrical and Pneumatic Diagrams, and Designing for Proper Acceptance Testing
  • Instrumentation drawings and documents, including:
    • Instrument selection report, instrument specification, data sheets, loop diagrams & schematics, cable schedules, hook-up diagrams, junction box wiring diagrams, cable racking layout, cable routing diagram, instrumentation index, history sheets, I/O lists, panel layout, power distribution, earthing diagrams and philosophy, PLC schematics, trip/alarm schedules, instrumentation detail, etc.
  • Electrical schematics (related to instrumentation projects), including:
    • Load lists, main & control circuits, electrical layout, single line diagrams, etc.
  • Pneumatic and hydraulic instrumentation schematics
  • Acceptance testing
Day Three: HMI Design Considerations, Area Classification, SIS and Instrumentation Selection & Sizing
  • PLC, SCADA and DCS design criteria and specification
  • Area and classification
  • Instrument classification
  • Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and SIS requirements, from a design point of view
  • Instrumentation selection and sizing (including equipment for the most common measurements)
Day Four: Intelligent Communication, Valve Sizing, Protection & Material Selection
  • Smart devices, HART and Fieldbus considerations for instrumentation plant design
  • Digital data communication aspects
  • Control valves and actuators, including selection and sizing
  • Equipment protection
  • Material selection
Day Five: Redundancy, Control Philosophy and Project Management
  • Spares philosophy
  • Design considerations for future expansion
  • Redundancy and loss of power considerations
  • Control philosophy, including:
    • Feedback, feed forward, on/off, regulatory, cascade, ratio, advanced control, etc.
  • Project management, including:
    • Project life cycles, scope, time, cost and quality management, risk, etc.

Providers and Associations

Aztech Training
Aztech Training