A best-seller since the introduction of the first edition in 1991, Flow Measurement, 2nd Edition, is the leading authority on all aspects of the field, from the most basic principles and tips to advanced theory and applications. Rather than relying on the inherent limitations of a single author, this resource provides readers with authoritative material from specialists in every flow measurement technology used in industry. For this new edition, over 30 authors have rewritten, updated, and expanded virtually every element of this comprehensive reference. Editors expanded the scope of the book by adding new chapters on laminar flow elements, critical flowmeters, statistics for measurement, laboratory primary standards, and uncertainty in flow measurement. 
Beginning with chapters on the need for flow measurement, a brief history of the field, and physical properties of fluids, the text takes readers through basics such as the fundamentals of flow measurement, calibration, and installation and maintenance of flowmeters. Material in these early chapters emphasizes the importance of accuracy in measurements and ways of ensuring accuracy and avoiding equipment damage through correct forecast of operating conditions, flowmeter selection, installation, calibration, and maintenance. Fundamental considerations such as mixed-phase flow, piping effects, and flow conditioning are examined at length. The problem of attaining a meaningful flow signal through linearization, compensation, and totalization is also discussed. 
The book dedicates a whole chapter to each major technology including differential pressure flowmeters, critical flowmeters, laminar flow elements, magnetic flowmeters, mass flowmeters, open channel flow measurement, oscillatory flowmeters, positive displacement flowmeters, target flowmeters, thermal mass flowmeters and controllers, tracer dilution measurement, turbine flowmeters, ultrasonic flowmeters, variable area flowmeters, insertion flow measurement, custody transfer measurement, and sanitary flowmeters. An additional six chapters provide in-depth reference material on other related aspects of flow measurement that include flowmeter selection, uncertainty in flow measurement, laboratory primary standards, flow measurement proficiency testing, industry standards, and flowmeter specifications. 
This resource is an essential reference for control systems engineers, instrument designers, instrumentation technicians, calibration specialists, maintenance managers, technical sales representatives, training instructors, researchers, and anyone else who deals with flow measurement technology.

Flow Measurement: Practical Guides for Measurement and Control (Practical Guides for Measurement and Control,)

Science & Math

David W. Spitzer

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

ISA: The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

Many applications of variable speed drive technology fall in the cracks between traditional engineering disciplines. This book presents the electrical, hydraulic, chemical, and instrumentation information necessary for sound evaluation of variable speed drive applications. The author also offers hints for selling management on a retrofit project.

Variable Speed Drives: Principles and Applications for Energy Cost Savings

Without modern Instrumentation control, industry would be at a standstill. Whether the instrumentation control hardware consists of local mechanical, pneumatic, or electronic controls, electronic or pneumatic analog controllers, microprocessor-based controllers, programmable logic controllers, personal computer-based controls, or a distributed control system, a keen awareness of advanced regulatory control is required by engineers, technicians, and technical managers in order that appropriate control technology be applied to industrial processes. This book is intended to describe advanced regulatory control and its application to continuous processes in a nonmathematical format and in as practical a manner as possible in order to be of benefit to all skill levels. Both manual and regulatory control are described in the text as a prelude to advanced regulatory control so that their differences might be explored.

Advanced Regulatory Control: Applications and Techniques

Technology

Momentum Press

Long a leading book on this class of controllers, this new edition by industry authority. David Spitzer will provide the latest improvements to variable speed drives, including automated "smart" feedback systems. Readers with both basic and advanced controller knowledge will find this book to be extremely useful introduction to how variable speed drivers work, how they are best used, and what to do and what to avoid when employing them as part of an overall automated industrial enterprise, all with an eye on energy savings.

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

A newly updated and completely independent guide to the world's capacitance and radar contact level gauges ranked by performance and supplier. The guide contains technical information about evaluating and applying these level gauges with pointers for installation, such as material, vapor, vessel, sensor, and electrical considerations. Tables include the types of level gauges and selected features that are available from each supplier, along with their country of origin or source. This guide is indispensable for designers, engineers, owners and end users of level gauges. See where your level gauge ranks and use this guide to help you choose your next capacitance and radar contact level gauge.

The Consumer Guide to Capacitance and Radar Contact Level Gauges

Reference

Walt Boyes

Consumer Guides

Copperhill and Pointer, Inc.

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Flow Measurement: Practical Guides for Measurement and Control (Practical Guides for Measurement and Control,)

Variable Speed Drives: Principles and Applications for Energy Cost Savings

Advanced Regulatory Control: Applications and Techniques

Variable Speed Drives: Principles and Applications for Energy Cost Savings

The Consumer Guide to Capacitance and Radar Contact Level Gauges