General & Miscellaneous Engineering

Process-Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook

Name: Process-Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook
Author: Douglas M. Considine
ISBN: 9780070124455

by Douglas M. Considine

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Through three editions,Process Instruments and Controls Handbook has set the standard for authoritative information on instruments and controls used in the chemical process industries (CPI). Broad in scope,thorough,and practical,it has been relied on by generations of designers,engineers,and technicians for dealing with process design problems commonly encountered in the CPI. The fourth edition,now titled Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook,is expanded to include detailed coverage of instruments and control devices as they are used in the manufacturing industries. Extensively revised and updated,this monumental handbook reflects all of the latest developments on: control and data objectives; control and data systems,discrete-piece manufacturing control,and data acquisition and communication system architectures; measurement,sensors,transducers,and transmitters; automatic control fundamentals and theory; computing elements in control settings; valves,actuators,and manipulators in control systems; operators' control system interface; control system design,selection,and specification. This is a masterful reference and a dependable source of measurement and control data that will help design,control,instrumentation,process,manufacturing,and plant engineers design a system right the very first time and avoid costly down-time.

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**** The third edition (1985), titled Process Instruments and Controls Handbook, is cited in BCL3. The present revised and updated edition contains 50 technical articles (supported by 775 illustrations and 70 tables) arranged in eight major sections: control system fundamentals, controllers, process variables--field instrumentation, geometric and motion sensors, physicochemical and analytical systems, control communications, operator interface, and valves, servos, motors, and robots. For control engineers in both the process industries and the discrete-piece manufacturing industries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)