Instrument Engineers' Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume Two:...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 2464 pages
• Published by: CRC
• Edition: 4th Edition September 29, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0849310814
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0849310812
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 2.8 inches
• Weighs: 7.3 pounds

Terrence K. McMahon. March 1996 - Control
Liptak began his engineering education at the Technical University of Budapest. After arriving in the U.S.; he earned master's degrees at Stevens Institute of Technology and City College of New York. His published works include more than seventy technical papers and twenty books on engineering. His singular achievement is the two volume Instrument Engineer's Handbook. The third edition was published in 1995. This latest edition comprises more than 3,000 pages between the two volumes. Each volume includes eight chapters with many sub-headings per chapter. The Flow Measurement and Analytical Instrumentation chapters were heavily revised for the 1995 edition of volume 1. Within each product-oriented sub-heading, in addition to extensive treatment of the applicable technology, a comprehensive listing of manufacturers and typical price ranges is provided. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Review
'Whether used as a text book by inexperienced engineers, or as a quick reference book for the experienced engineer - this book looks set to continue to be the main reference for the instrument engineer for the next decade - and at a realistic price which is better value today.'
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Reader Reviews
Absolutely the Very Best Process Control Reference for the Process Control Engineer - Now Updated and Expanded !!. This is the second volume of the Instrument Engineer's Handbook, and. as its title suggests, it deals with Process control and Optimization, covering everything from Control Hardware, Control Theory, Control Strategies, and the Control and Optimization of Specific Unit Operations. The Chapters on Control Hardware cover in detail transmitters, controllers, control valves, regulators and other types of final control elements, PLCs, and other logic devices, human interfaces and displays, including the design of control rooms. The Chapters on Control Theory and Control Strategies covers everything from control basics and PID controllers, to tuning methods, stability, process characteristics, process modeling and simulation, model-based control, genetic and other evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic programming, neural networks and other advance control strategies. The Chapters on Control and Optimization of Unit Operations provide both in-depth of both the theory of operation and control, and practical implementation for the control of pumping, distillation, chemical reaction, heat transfer and many other. While evaluating and reviewing such sophisticated topics about Process Control, this handbook also tries and succeeds to provide and reinforce the reader with the most useful tool for the Automation and Control Engineer: Common Sense. In order to emphasize the importance of Common Sense, the Author gives some practical recommendations that include the following ones: - Before we can control a process, one must fully understand it. - Being progressive is good, but being a guinea pig is not. Therefore is the wrong control strategy is implemented, the performance of even the most advanced digital hardware will be unacceptable. - And Instrumentation, Automation, and Process Control Engineer or Technician is doing a good and better job by telling plant management what they need to know, and not what they like to hear. - If an instrument is worth installing, it should also be worth calibrating and maintaining. No device can outperform the reference against it was calibrated. - Trust your common sense not the sales literature. Independent performance evaluation based on the recommendation of international and national users associations should be done before installation, and not after it. I am an Industrial Practitioner of Process Measurement & Control. I have been working in the Process Industries for more than 16 years as an Automation, Instrumentation, Process Safety and Process Control Engineer. I consider this book to be the very best reference in the field for anyone and everyone working in these areas or in areas related with their Industrial applications. You will find this handbook useful, either if your work is related with the engineering, maintenance or operation of Process Control Systems. If you are a beginner to Process Control, you may also want to consider "Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control (Topics in Chemical Engineering)" by Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, which is an excelent introductory reference to Chemical Processes Dynamics and Control. Comment | | (Report this)