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Instrument Engineers' Handbook Process Software and Digital Networks

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ISBN-10: 0849310822

ISBN-13: 9780849310829

Edition: 3rd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Bela G. Liptak

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The third edition of the Instrument Engineers' Handbook helps readers select and apply hundreds of process measurement and control instruments and analytical devices.
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Book details

List price: $247.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 6/26/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 912
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 4.994
Language: English

Contributors
Preface
Definitions
Abbreviations, Nomenclature, Acronyms, and Symbols
Societies and Organizations
Overall Plant Design
Auditing Existing Plants for Upgrading
Project Management and Documentation
Operator Training, Commissioning, and Start-Up
Flowsheet Symbols and Functional Diagramming for Digitally Implemented Loops
Historical Data Storage and Evaluation
Integration of Process Data with Maintenance Systems
Applications, Standards, and Products for Grounding and Shielding
Concepts of Hierarchical Control
Analog or Discrete Input/Output, Costs and Signal Processing
Estimating the Costs of Control System Packages
Designing a Safe Plant
Hazardous Area Classification
Intrinsic Safety Rules for Fieldbus Installations
Purging and Inerting Systems
High-Integrity Pressure Protection Systems
Process Safety Management
Redundant or Voting Systems for Increased Reliability
Network Security
Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Operation
Reliability Engineering Concepts
Intelligent Alarm Management
Safety Instrumentation and Justification of Its Cost
International Safety Standards and Certification (ANSI/ISA-S84, IEC 61511/61508/62061, ISO 13849)
Control Center, Workstation, and Logic Design
Operator Interface Evolution
Virtual Reality Tools for Testing Control Room Concepts
Upgrading the Control Room
Manufacturing Platforms and Workstations
Workstation Hosts: Design Concepts and Classification
Integration of DCS, PLC, HMI, and SCADA Systems
Integration with RTUs, Multiplexers, Fieldbuses, and Data Highways
Hybrid Systems with Discrete and Analog Capability
SCADA--Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
PLC Programming
Fault-Tolerant Programming and Real-Time Operating Systems
Practical Logic Design
Buses and Networks
An Introduction to Networks in Process Automation
PLC Proprietary and Open Networks
Hardware Selection for Fieldbus Systems
Sorting Out the Protocols
Overall Fieldbus Trends
Fieldbus Advantages and Disadvantages
Fieldbus Design, Installation, Economics, and Documentation
Instrumentation Network Design and Upgrade
Global System Architectures
Advantages and Limitations of Open Networks
HART Networks
Foundation Fieldbus Network
PROFIBUS-PA
Designing PROFIBUS-PA and Foundation Fieldbus Segments
Ethernet and TCP/IP-Based Systems
Fieldbus Networks Catering to Specific Niches of Industry
Proprietary Networks
Fiber-Optic Networks
Satellite, Infrared, Radio, and Wireless LAN Networks
Software Packages
Control Loop Optimization
Data Reconciliation
Sequence of Event Recorders and Post-Trip Reviews
OPC Software Architecture
Batch Control State of the Art
Plantwide Control Loop Optimization
Plantwide Controller Performance Monitoring
The "Virtual Plant," A Tool for Better Understanding
Appendix
International System of Units
Engineering Conversion Factors
Chemical Resistance of Materials
Composition of Metallic and Other Materials
Steam and Water Tables
Friction Loss in Pipes
Tank Volumes
Partial List of Suppliers
Index