Handbook Of Advanced Process Control Systems And Instrumentation

Technological advancements in process monitoring, control and industrial automation over the past decades have contributed greatly to improve the productivity of virtually all manufacturing industries throughout the world. This handbook is designed to provide an insight into the area of advanced process control and produce control engineers with a good theoretical and practical knowledge.

This book distils into a single coherent handbook all the essentials of process automation at a depth sufficient for most practical purposes. The handbook focuses on the knowledge needed to cope with the vast majority of process control and automation situations. In doing so, a number of sensible balances have been carefully struck between breadth and depth, theory and practice, classical and modern, technology and technique, information and understanding. A thorough grounding is provided for every topic. No other book covers the gap between the theory and practice of control systems so comprehensively and at a level suitable for practicing engineers.

Extensive practical plant based knowledge to achieve the best automation system BACK 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

This third edition of the Instrument Engineers' Handbook-most complete and respected work on process instrumentation and control-helps you:

Intended for control system engineers working in the chemical, refining, paper, and utility industries, this book reviews the general characteristics of processes and control loops, provides an intuitive feel for feedback control behavior, and explains how to obtain the required control action witho