Böcker av Gregory McMillan

Extensive practical plant based knowledge to achieve the best automation systemBACK COVER DESCRIPTION: This fully updated on-the-job reference contains all the automation and control information you need to make timely decisions, and maximize process capacity and efficiency. Featuring contributions from 50 top technical experts, Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition covers the latest technologies and advances. More importantly, the book helps you select the right instrumentation, install and maintain it correctly, and leverage it to maximize plant performance and profitability. You will get all you need to know to execute a successful automation project including time-saving tables, lists of essential best practices, and hundreds of topic-defining illustrations.Coverage includes:.Process variable measurements.Analytical measurements.Control Network communications.Safety instrumented systems.Control systems fundamentals.PID control strategies.Continuous and batch control.Improving operator performance.Improving process performance.Project management.And more

Offers an experienced-based guide to what can so often go wrong with the systems that measure, regulate, and control industrial processes - from pH measurements to temperature and pressure monitors to process interlock problems.

Useful for Control engineers, mechanical engineers and mechanical technicians who will learn how to select the proper control systems for axial and centrifugal compressors for proper throughput and surge control, with a particular emphasis on surge control. This book helps readers to learn to understand the importance of transmitter speed.