Instrumentation Reference Book
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Instrumentation Reference Book

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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

  1. Cover image
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. Contributors
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. The Automation Practicum
  8. Chapter 2. Basic Principles of Industrial Automation
  9. Chapter 3. Measurement Methods and Control Strategies
  10. Chapter 4. Simulation and Design Software
  11. Chapter 5. Security for Industrial Automation
  12. Chapter 6. Measurement of Flow
  13. Chapter 7. Measurement of Viscosity
  14. Chapter 8. Measurement of Length
  15. Chapter 9. Measurement of Strain
  16. Chapter 10. Measurement of Level and Volume
  17. Chapter 11. Vibration
  18. Chapter 12. Measurement of Force
  19. Chapter 13. Measurement of Density
  20. Chapter 14. Measurement of Pressure
  21. Chapter 15. Measurement of Vacuum
  22. Chapter 16. Particle Sizing
  23. Chapter 17. Fiber Optics in Sensor Instrumentation
  24. Chapter 18. Nanotechnology for Sensors
  25. Chapter 19. Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Transmitters
  26. Chapter 20. Industrial Wireless Technology and Planning
  27. Chapter 21. Temperature Measurement
  28. 21.1. Temperature and Heat
  29. 21.2. Temperature Scales
  30. 21.3. Measurement Techniques: Direct Effects
  31. 21.4. Measurement Techniques: Electrical
  32. 21.5. Measurement Techniques: Thermocouples
  33. 21.6. Measurement Techniques: Radiation Thermometers
  34. 21.7. Temperature Measurement Considerations
  35. Chapter 22. Chemical Analysis
  36. Chapter 23. Chemical Analysis
  37. Chapter 24. Chemical Analysis
  38. Chapter 25. Chemical Analysis
  39. Chapter 26. Chemical Analysis
  40. Chapter 27. Electrical Measurements
  41. Chapter 28. Optical Measurements
  42. Chapter 29. Nuclear Instrumentation Technology
  43. Chapter 30. Measurements Employing Nuclear Techniques
  44. Chapter 31. Non-Destructive Testing
  45. Chapter 32. Noise Measurement
  46. Chapter 33. Field Controllers, Hardware and Software
  47. Chapter 34. Advanced Control for the Plant Floor
  48. Chapter 35. Batch Process Control
  49. Chapter 36. Applying Control Valves
  50. Chapter 37. Design and Construction of Instruments
  51. Chapter 38. Instrument Installation and Commissioning
  52. Chapter 39. Sampling
  53. Chapter 40. Telemetry
  54. Chapter 41. Display and Recording
  55. Chapter 42. Pneumatic Instrumentation
  56. Chapter 43. Reliability in Instrumentation and Control
  57. 43.1. Reliability Principles and Terminology
  58. 43.2. Reliability Assessment
  59. 43.3. System Design
  60. 43.4. Building High-reliability Systems
  61. 43.5. The Human Operatorin Control and Instrumentation
  62. 43.6. Safety Monitoring
  63. 43.7. Software reliability
  64. 43.8. Electronic and Avionic Systems
  65. 43.9. Nuclear Reactor Control Systems
  66. 43.10. Process and Plant Control
  67. Chapter 44. Safety
  68. Chapter 45. EMC
  69. 45.1. Introduction
  70. 45.2. Interference coupling mechanisms
  71. 45.3. Circuits, Layout, and Grounding
  72. 45.4. Interfaces, filtering, and shielding
  73. 45.5. The Regulatory Framework
  74. Appendix A. General Instrumentation Books
  75. Appendix B. Professional Societies and Associations
  76. Appendix C. The Institute of Measurement and Control
  77. Appendix D. International Society of Automation, Formerly Instrument Society of America
  78. Index