Instrumentation Reference Book

The discipline of instrumentation has grown appreciably in recent years because of advances in sensor technology and in the interconnectivity of sensors, computers and control systems. This 4e of the Instrumentation Reference Book embraces the equipment and systems used to detect, track and store data related to physical, chemical, electrical, thermal and mechanical properties of materials, systems and operations. While traditionally a key area within mechanical and industrial engineering, understanding this greater and more complex use of sensing and monitoring controls and systems is essential for a wide variety of engineering areas--from manufacturing to chemical processing to aerospace operations to even the everyday automobile.

In turn, this has meant that the automation of manufacturing, process industries, and even building and infrastructure construction has been improved dramatically. And now with remote wireless instrumentation, heretofore inaccessible or widely dispersed operations and procedures can be automatically monitored and controlled. This already well-established reference work will reflect these dramatic changes with improved and expanded coverage of the traditional domains of instrumentation as well as the cutting-edge areas of digital integration of complex sensor/control systems.

Thoroughly revised, with up-to-date coverage of wireless sensors and systems, as well as nanotechnologies role in the evolution of sensor technologyLatest information on new sensor equipment, new measurement standards, and new software for embedded control systems, networking and automated controlThree entirely new sections on Controllers, Actuators and Final Control Elements; Manufacturing Execution Systems; and Automation Knowledge BaseUp-dated and expanded references and critical standards

Part 1: The Automation Knowledge Base 1. The Automation Practicum 2. Basic Principles 3. Measurement methods, reliability and asset management 4. Training and Education 5. Maintenance and repair

Part 2: Mechanical Measurements 1. Measurement of Flow 2. Measurement of Viscosity 3. Measurement of Length 4. Measurement of Strain 5. Measurement of Level and Volume 6. Vibration 7. Measurement of Force 8. Measurement of Density 9. Measurement of Pressure 10. Measurement of Vacuum 11. Particle Sizing 12. Fiber optics in sensor instrumentation 13. Nanotechnology for sensors 14. Microprocessor-based and intelligent transmitters 15. Wireless sensors and networks

Part 3: Measurement of Temperature and Chemical Composition 1. Temperature measurement 2. Chemical Analysis- Introduction 3. Chemical Analysis- Spectroscopy 4. Chemical Analysis- Electrochemical techniques 5. Chemical Analysis- Gas analysis 6. Chemical Analysis- moisture measurement 7. Chemical Analysis- online systems, NeSSI and sampling techniques 8. PAT (Process Analyzer Technology initiative)

Part 4: Electrical and Radiation Measurements 1. Electrical measurements 2. Optical measurements 3. Nuclear instrumentation technology 4. Measurements employing nuclear techniques 5. Non Destructive Testing 6. Positive Material Identification 7. Noise measurement

Part 5: Controllers, Actuators and Final Control Elements 1. Field controllers, hardware and software 2. Advanced Control for the Plant Floor 3. Discrete and Sequential Control 4. Motion control 5. Cables and connectors 6. Batch process control 7. Valves, actuators and final control elements

Part 6: Automation and Control Systems 1. Design principles and equipment selection for sequential and discrete automation 2. Design and selection of field instruments and final control elements for continuous and batch process control 3. Principles of industrial networking and fieldbuses 4. SCADA and telemetry systems 5. Using field controllers, PLCs and PACs 6. Instrument installation and commissioning 7. Design principles for control rooms and operator stations 8. Selecting and specifying a control system 9. Safety instrumented systems and plant floor safety 10. Security for the industrial enterprise

Part 7: Manufacturing Execution Systems 1. Project planning and execution 2. Modeling the plant floor and the enterprise 3. Data analysis and connection 4. Networking for MES 5. MES-IT integration