Electrical Instrumentation Engineer
Electrical Instrumentation Engineer
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Good day all,Please could someone help me,I need to know what an Electrical Instrumentation engineer does in an oil company,the kind of equipment he works on and so on.I'd appreciate any hint you could give.
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RE: Electrical Instrumentation Engineer
Calibration: Keeping track of scheduled calibration periods on all sensors and how they need to be calibrated.
Troubleshooting: Figuring out any system problems caused by failed transducers.
Design: Assist with transducer selection for new systems.
Maintenance: Keep track of new transducer availabilities and improvements and decide when to replace and upgrade existing ones.
Understand and review intrinsic saftey aspects of the plant's controls.
Understand and review EXP aspects of the plant's controls.
A clear understanding of the controllers will be required, that is the computer controllers that most of the transducers will report to, so that instrumentation troubleshooting can extend to the controller.
Valve actuators must be understood.
A *good* controls engineer will have a very clear understanding of the plant's process. This is vital so that tranducers can be properly selected, and for saftey in understanding what is lurking on the other side of the pipe.
Also the types of transducer interfaces that exist:
Current transducers.
Voltage transducers.
Digital transducers.
Signaling protocols like: Hart, ethernet, RS-232, RS-485,CAN, DeviceNet, Fieldbus, Modbus, IDNET.
What am I leaving out?
RE: Electrical Instrumentation Engineer
If you're talking about a refinery, you'd want to pick up a little organic chemistry to understand the process.
Most of the buzz these days centers on the digital side of instrumentation including software and communications, but there's still a need for engineers who understand the basic transducers involved, and of course the process itself.
RE: Electrical Instrumentation Engineer
Thanks so much itsmoked and dpc.I really apprecitae.Your comments have given me a muchbetter understanding.
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RE: Electrical Instrumentation Engineer
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
Nikola Tesla
RE: Electrical Instrumentation Engineer
So part of insrumentation as an expalnation your friend would give is tapping the guages with the plastic end of a screw driver to make sure the needles weren't stuck!REally interesting!!!! He must have been good at this tapping to last fo thirty years.
That is a humurous one Jraef.
Achor