This text looks at process control improvement and new instrumentation standards, covering the folowing topics: field bus; process impact; plant analysis; valve response; intelligent sensors; world class manufacturing; real time optimization and safety interlock systems.

This work is updated to mirror the most current common practices in the industry - a perfect guide for instrumentation engineers, chemical engineers, and others. It is enhanced with important sections on process control improvements and new instrumentation standards. It contains a coverage of all the latest advances brought on by the increase of power and miniaturization of the microprocessor.

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

ISBN:

9780070125827

Publication date:

October 1999

Length:

242mm

Width:

195mm

Thickness:

56mm

Weight:

2223g

Edition:

5th Edition

Pages:

1200

Illustrations:

Illustrated

Readership:

Professional & scholarly

Prescribed at:

UNISA 2012

Subject / Course:

PRS341Z

Subject / Course:

PRS2PRA

Subject / Course:

PRS241S

Illustrated:

Illustrated

• Control system fundamentals
• controllers
• process variables
• field instrumentation
• geometric and motion sensors
• physicochemical and analytical systems
• control communications
• operator interface
• valves, servos, motors, and robots
• process control improvement
• new instrumentation standards