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Troubleshooting process plant control : a practical guide to avoiding and correcting mistakes /

Examines real life problems and solutions for operators and engineers running process controls Expands on the first book with the addition of five new chapters as well as new troubleshooting examples Written for the working operator and engineer, with straightforward instruction not hinged on comple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lieberman, Norman P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2017.
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Learning from experience
  • Process control parameter measurement
  • Dependent and independent variables
  • Binary distillation of pure components
  • Distillation tower pressure control
  • Control of aqueous phase (waste water) strippers
  • Pressure control in multicomponent systems
  • Optimizing fractionation efficiency by temperature profile
  • Analyzer process control
  • Fired heater combustion air control
  • Using existing controls to promote energy efficiency
  • Sizing process control valves
  • Control valve position on instrument air failure
  • Override and split-range process control
  • Vacuum system pressure control
  • Reciprocating compressors
  • Centrifugal compressor surge vs. motor over-amping
  • Controlling centrifugal pumps
  • Steam turbine control
  • Steam and condensate control
  • Control of process reactions
  • Function of the process control engineer
  • Steam quality and moisture content
  • Level, pressure, flow, and temperature indication methods
  • Alarm and trip design for safe plant operations
  • Inverted response of process parameters
  • Nonlinear process responses
  • Control malfunction stories.