Course registration for next semester had started today until June 11th,2010. This iis avery critical moment for me as I’ve got only 5 options to pick for my major.
1. Industrial and Environmental Engineering
2. Process Plant Engineering
3. Gas and Petrochemical Engineering.
4. Process Analysis and Control
5. Petroleum Engineering
Out of this 5, I have to choose one. Man this is one of the biggest decision that I have to make. Out of this five, I’m in dilemma to choose between Process Analysis and Control and Process Plant Engineerin. Petroleum kindda interesting too. ..Hmm.. But I guess I have to let Petroleum Engineering go as there’s Petroleum Engineering course in UTP. So, now basically I’m having my internship in a petrochemical company and handling lots and lots of process plant task and projects .I even designing and simulating the process as well. Here I’m learning about some environmental stuff too. Most of my projects here involving a lot of calculations involved in process plant as well as some simulation using iCON, HYSYS, COCO, CHEMCAD, PPO-SIM and COMPRESS. At first, it was tough for me, now I enjoyed what I do and it was fun and my calculations are trusted by my manager and supervisors. These are a few strong points for Process Plant Engineering for me.
Well, what makes me wanna choose Process Analysis and Control? This comes when I am studying a turbine with a Turbine Guru in my office. When he taught me the control oil system, It fascinates me how a simple standard of 4mA-16mA current is being used to control the throttling of basically anything. Well it’s kindda hard for me to explain it further but for me it is interesting.
As I think further, along the way when I start to work I can learn process plant design. And in order to control a process, I need to know plant design, for example a chiller a process plant engineer design it, what medium does that chiller uses, what is the operating temperature and pressure, how many tubes, how many baffles, bla bla bla and the list goes on and on but a process control engineer he needs all the data right from the very beginning and into the root of the design data of the chiller in order he/she can control the process, (ie. to control the temperature, to control the pressure, the level of the chiller, to control the dynamics of the process, he need the heat integration data to do the control of the process and bla bla bla yada yada yada..and from these data we convert electrical signal to control the variables, and the implementing feedforward control or feedbackward or cascade control..bla bla bla) Well to me I see it this way. Taking process control is like killing 2 birds using 1 stone or maybe can hurt one bird and killing the other bird well either ways..I’ve ask a guy in my office and he said, “Not all people understands process control, but if you look at if you look at it, it’s an interesting thing”
Well I guess I’ve made my decision..I’ll choose Process Analysis and Control as my major elective..to all of my coursemates..all the best for all of us, cheers!! :)
2. Process Plant Engineering
3. Gas and Petrochemical Engineering.
4. Process Analysis and Control
5. Petroleum Engineering
Out of this 5, I have to choose one. Man this is one of the biggest decision that I have to make. Out of this five, I’m in dilemma to choose between Process Analysis and Control and Process Plant Engineerin. Petroleum kindda interesting too. ..Hmm.. But I guess I have to let Petroleum Engineering go as there’s Petroleum Engineering course in UTP. So, now basically I’m having my internship in a petrochemical company and handling lots and lots of process plant task and projects .I even designing and simulating the process as well. Here I’m learning about some environmental stuff too. Most of my projects here involving a lot of calculations involved in process plant as well as some simulation using iCON, HYSYS, COCO, CHEMCAD, PPO-SIM and COMPRESS. At first, it was tough for me, now I enjoyed what I do and it was fun and my calculations are trusted by my manager and supervisors. These are a few strong points for Process Plant Engineering for me.
Well, what makes me wanna choose Process Analysis and Control? This comes when I am studying a turbine with a Turbine Guru in my office. When he taught me the control oil system, It fascinates me how a simple standard of 4mA-16mA current is being used to control the throttling of basically anything. Well it’s kindda hard for me to explain it further but for me it is interesting.
As I think further, along the way when I start to work I can learn process plant design. And in order to control a process, I need to know plant design, for example a chiller a process plant engineer design it, what medium does that chiller uses, what is the operating temperature and pressure, how many tubes, how many baffles, bla bla bla and the list goes on and on but a process control engineer he needs all the data right from the very beginning and into the root of the design data of the chiller in order he/she can control the process, (ie. to control the temperature, to control the pressure, the level of the chiller, to control the dynamics of the process, he need the heat integration data to do the control of the process and bla bla bla yada yada yada..and from these data we convert electrical signal to control the variables, and the implementing feedforward control or feedbackward or cascade control..bla bla bla) Well to me I see it this way. Taking process control is like killing 2 birds using 1 stone or maybe can hurt one bird and killing the other bird well either ways..I’ve ask a guy in my office and he said, “Not all people understands process control, but if you look at if you look at it, it’s an interesting thing”
Well I guess I’ve made my decision..I’ll choose Process Analysis and Control as my major elective..to all of my coursemates..all the best for all of us, cheers!! :)
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