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Instrument engineers' handbook. Process control /

Instrument Engineers' Handbook, Third Edition: Process Control provides information pertinent to control hardware, including transmitters, controllers, control valves, displays, and computer systems. This book presents the control theory and shows how the unit processes of distillation and chem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lipt�ak, B�ela G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Butterworth Heinemann, 1995.
Edición:Third edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Process Control; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Contributors; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Control Theory; 1.1 Control Basics; 1.2 Control Modes: PID Controllers; 1.3 Control Modes: PID Variations; 1.4 Control Modes: Closed Loop Response; 1.5 Control: Cascade Loops; 1.6 Expert Systems: Artificial Intelligence; 1.7 Expert Systems: Neural Networks; 1.8 Feedback and Feedforward Control; 1.9 Interaction and Decoupling; 1.10 Model-Based Control; 1.11 Modeling and Simulation of Processes; 1.12 Nonlinear and Adaptive Control; 1.13 Optimizing Control
  • 1.14 Process Gains, Time Lags, Reaction Curves1.15 Ratio Control; 1.16 Relative Gain Calculations; 1.17 Selective, Override, and Limit Controls; 1.18 Self-Tuning Controllers; 1.19 Stability Analysis, Transfer Functions; 1.20 Statistical Process Control; 1.21 Tuning PID Controllers; 1.22 Tuning by Computer; Chapter 2. Controllers, Transmitters, Converters, and Relays; 2.1 Analog versus Digital Instruments; 2.2 Electronic versus Pneumatic Instruments; 2.3 Controllers: Electronic Analog and Digital; 2.4 Controllers: Pneumatic; 2.5 Converters; 2.6 Function Generators, Computing Relays
  • 2.7 Telemetering Systems2.8 Thermostats and Humidostats; 2.9 Transmitters: Electronic and Intelligent; 2.10 Transmitters: Fiber-Optic Transmission; 2.11 Transmitters: Pneumatic; Chapter 3. Control Centers, Panels, and Displays; 3.1 Annunciators and Alarms; 3.2 Control Centers and Panels; 3.3 Digital Readouts; 3.4 Human Engineering; 3.5 Indicators, Analog Displays; 3.6 Lights; 3.7 Recorders, Oscillographs, Loggers, Tape Recorders; 3.8 Speech Synthesis and Voice Recognition; 3.9 Switches, Pushbuttons, Keyboards
  • 3.10 Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) and Uninterruptible Voltage Supplies (UVS)Chapter 4. Control Valves, On-Off, and Throttling; 4.1 Actuators: Digital, Electric, Hydraulic, Solenoid; 4.2 Actuators: Pneumatic; 4.3 Accessories and Positioners; 4.4 Ball Valves; 4.5 Butterfly Valves; 4.6 Digital Valves; 4.7 Globe Valves; 4.8 Pinch Valves; 4.9 Plug Valves; 4.10 Saunders Diaphragm Valves; 4.11 Sliding Gate Valves; 4.12 Special Valve Designs; 4.13 Valves: Application and Selection; 4.14 Valves: Capacity Testing; 4.15 Valves: Characteristics and Rangeability
  • 4.16 Valves: Noise Calculation and Reduction4.17 Valves: Sizing; Chapter 5. Regulators and Other Throttling Devices; 5.1 Dampers; 5.2 Electric Energy Modulation; 5.3 Pumps as Control Elements; 5.4 Regulators: Flow; 5.5 Regulators: Level; 5.6 Regulators: Pressure; 5.7 Regulators: Temperature; 5.8 Variable-Speed Drives; Chapter 6. PLCs and Other Logic Devices; 6.1 Binary Logic Diagrams for Process Operations; 6.2 Fuzzy Logic Control; 6.3 Ladder Diagrams; 6.4 Optimization of Logic Circuits; 6.5 PLC-Programmable Logic Controllers; 6.6 PLC-Software Advances; 6.7 Relays