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Instrumentation Reference Book
About This Book
The discipline of instrumentation has grown appreciably in recent years because of advances in sensor technology and in the interconnectivity of sensors, computers and control systems. This 4e of the Instrumentation Reference Book embraces the equipment and systems used to detect, track and store data related to physical, chemical, electrical, thermal and mechanical properties of materials, systems and operations. While traditionally a key area within mechanical and industrial engineering, understanding this greater and more complex use of sensing and monitoring controls and systems is essential for a wide variety of engineering areas--from manufacturing to chemical processing to aerospace operations to even the everyday automobile.
In turn, this has meant that the automation of manufacturing, process industries, and even building and infrastructure construction has been improved dramatically. And now with remote wireless instrumentation, heretofore inaccessible or widely dispersed operations and procedures can be automatically monitored and controlled. This already well-established reference work will reflect these dramatic changes with improved and expanded coverage of the traditional domains of instrumentation as well as the cutting-edge areas of digital integration of complex sensor/control systems.
- Thoroughly revised, with up-to-date coverage of wireless sensors and systems, as well as nanotechnologies role in the evolution of sensor technology
- Latest information on new sensor equipment, new measurement standards, and new software for embedded control systems, networking and automated control
- Three entirely new sections on Controllers, Actuators and Final Control Elements; Manufacturing Execution Systems; and Automation Knowledge Base
- Up-dated and expanded references and critical standards
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Automation Practicum
- Chapter 2. Basic Principles of Industrial Automation
- Chapter 3. Measurement Methods and Control Strategies
- Chapter 4. Simulation and Design Software
- Chapter 5. Security for Industrial Automation
- Chapter 6. Measurement of Flow
- Chapter 7. Measurement of Viscosity
- Chapter 8. Measurement of Length
- Chapter 9. Measurement of Strain
- Chapter 10. Measurement of Level and Volume
- Chapter 11. Vibration
- Chapter 12. Measurement of Force
- Chapter 13. Measurement of Density
- Chapter 14. Measurement of Pressure
- Chapter 15. Measurement of Vacuum
- Chapter 16. Particle Sizing
- Chapter 17. Fiber Optics in Sensor Instrumentation
- Chapter 18. Nanotechnology for Sensors
- Chapter 19. Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Transmitters
- Chapter 20. Industrial Wireless Technology and Planning
- Chapter 21. Temperature Measurement
- 21.1. Temperature and Heat
- 21.2. Temperature Scales
- 21.3. Measurement Techniques: Direct Effects
- 21.4. Measurement Techniques: Electrical
- 21.5. Measurement Techniques: Thermocouples
- 21.6. Measurement Techniques: Radiation Thermometers
- 21.7. Temperature Measurement Considerations
- Chapter 22. Chemical Analysis
- Chapter 23. Chemical Analysis
- Chapter 24. Chemical Analysis
- Chapter 25. Chemical Analysis
- Chapter 26. Chemical Analysis
- Chapter 27. Electrical Measurements
- Chapter 28. Optical Measurements
- Chapter 29. Nuclear Instrumentation Technology
- Chapter 30. Measurements Employing Nuclear Techniques
- Chapter 31. Non-Destructive Testing
- Chapter 32. Noise Measurement
- Chapter 33. Field Controllers, Hardware and Software
- Chapter 34. Advanced Control for the Plant Floor
- Chapter 35. Batch Process Control
- Chapter 36. Applying Control Valves
- Chapter 37. Design and Construction of Instruments
- Chapter 38. Instrument Installation and Commissioning
- Chapter 39. Sampling
- Chapter 40. Telemetry
- Chapter 41. Display and Recording
- Chapter 42. Pneumatic Instrumentation
- Chapter 43. Reliability in Instrumentation and Control
- 43.1. Reliability Principles and Terminology
- 43.2. Reliability Assessment
- 43.3. System Design
- 43.4. Building High-reliability Systems
- 43.5. The Human Operatorin Control and Instrumentation
- 43.6. Safety Monitoring
- 43.7. Software reliability
- 43.8. Electronic and Avionic Systems
- 43.9. Nuclear Reactor Control Systems
- 43.10. Process and Plant Control
- Chapter 44. Safety
- Chapter 45. EMC
- 45.1. Introduction
- 45.2. Interference coupling mechanisms
- 45.3. Circuits, Layout, and Grounding
- 45.4. Interfaces, filtering, and shielding
- 45.5. The Regulatory Framework
- Appendix A. General Instrumentation Books
- Appendix B. Professional Societies and Associations
- Appendix C. The Institute of Measurement and Control
- Appendix D. International Society of Automation, Formerly Instrument Society of America
- Index