Control engineers, mechanical engineers and mechanical technicians will learn how to select the proper control systems for axial and centrifugal compressors for proper throughput and surge control, with a particular emphasis on surge control. Readers will learn to understand the importance of transmitter speed, digital controller sample time, and control valve stroking time in helping to prevent surge. Engineers and technicians will find this book to be a highly valuable guide on compressor control schemes and the importance of mitigating costly and sometimes catastrophic surge problems. It can be used as a self-tutorial guide or in the classroom with the book's helpful end-of-chapter questions and exercises and sections for keeping notes.

Centrifugal and Axial Compressor Control

Science & Math

McMillan, Gregory K.

Technology

Extensive practical plant based knowledge to achieve the best automation system BACK COVER DESCRIPTION: This fully updated on-the-job reference contains all the automation and control information you need to make timely decisions, and maximize process capacity and efficiency. Featuring contributions from 50 top technical experts, Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition covers the latest technologies and advances. More importantly, the book helps you select the right instrumentation, install and maintain it correctly, and leverage it to maximize plant performance and profitability. You will get all you need to know to execute a successful automation project including time-saving tables, lists of essential best practices, and hundreds of topic-defining illustrations. Coverage includes: • Process variable measurements • Analytical measurements • Control Network communications • Safety instrumented systems • Control systems fundamentals • PID control strategies • Continuous and batch control • Improving operator performance • Improving process performance • Project management • And more

Process / Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition

Computers & Technology

Vegas, P. Hunter

Graphics & Design

McGraw=Hill

'This book is very light-hearted but does have many valid points concerning the real world...I enjoyed the book and have used its aRules of ThumbA here at work.' (ISA Analysis Division Newsletter, Dec. 1991). Contents include: Selection, Training, and Survival How to Snow Process Engineers How to Function in a World with Vendors and Buyers Things That ShouldnAt Be Instruments How to Tune Controllers.

How to Become an Instrument Engineer: The Making of a Prima Donna

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Instrument Society of America

A textbook for a technical college-level course or self-study (described as "An independent learning module from the ISA"). McMillan's expertise has been sharpened in the field by his conception and installation of DCSs in Monsanto chemical plant control rooms. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Continuous Control Techniques for Distributed Control Systems

Tuning and Control Loop Performance: A Practitioner's Guide

The latest in the popular series of humorous essays by McMillan, Weiner, and cohorts. Illustrated with original cartoons by Ted Williams. Contents include: Rocky and Bullwinkle Get Real Tuning Loops Invasion of the Mind Snatchers Top Ten Uses for Old Performance Reviews How to Recognize a Bad Start-Up The Job Interview Valve Position - The Missing Link.

How to Become an Instrument Engineer Part 1.523: New and Improved! 52% More Entertaining Than Original

Weiner, Stanley

The newest addition to McMillan's popular series of humorous essays. Readers will enjoy the light-hearted topics of process control covered in this book. Illustrated with original cartoons by Ted Williams. Contents: Self-Test of Basic Process Control Knowledge  Top Ten Terrifying Thoughts of Control Engineers, Just Before They Fall Asleep  You Might Just Be a Process Control Engineer If...Is Anyone  There?  A Brief History of the Pocket Protector  and The Truth.

Dispersing Heat Through Conviction: The Funnier Side of Process Control

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

There has been a dynamic development of control over the past 50 years. Many new methods have appeared. The methods have traditionally been presented in highly specialized books written for researchers or engineers with advanced degrees in control theory. These books have been very useful to advance the state of the art but are difficult, however, for an average engineer. It is thus highly desirable to present the industrially proven control methods to ordinary engineers working in industry. Advanced Control Unleashed provides a basis for assessing the benefits of advanced control. The book covers auto-tuning, model predictive control, optimization, estimators, neural networks, fuzzy control, simulators, expert systems, diagnostics, and performance assessment. It is written by four seasoned practitioners of control, having jointly more than 100 years of real industrial experience in the development and use of advanced control. The book is well positioned to provide the bridge over the infamous Gap between Theory and Practice in control. As an added bonus, the book includes a CD that helps bridge theoretical concepts and practical implementations by providing real DeltaV simulations and displays. This interactive CD offers practical design, simulation, and implementation examples that make key examples in the book come alive. Configuration and case files are supplied for a hands-on experience and PowerPoint files suitable for lectures on each unit are also included.

Advanced Control Unleashed: Plant Performance Management for Optimum Benefit

Business & Money

Blevins, Terrence L.

Wojsznis, Willy K.

Brown, Michael W.

Management & Leadership

This best-selling book is now expanded and updated, providing a clear, concise, and comprehensive view of how to select, install, and maintain electrodes, control valves, and control strategies for pH applications critical for product and water quality in the process industry. The book covers every aspect of system design including the mixing and reagent piping requirements that are important for a successful application. The essential concepts are summarized as key insights and the best practices are presented as rules of thumb throughout the book. The emerging capability of dynamic online pH estimators is explored to make existing pH measurements faster and more reliable. The latest developments in advanced batch control, adaptive control, linear reagent demand control, and model predictive control are presented to reduce reagent consumption and variability. A Microsoft Excel workbook file is included that lets users generate titration curves and analyze pH control system performance. A virtual plant is also offered to prototype and study pH control systems. The dynamic process models and control system modules for the virtual plant require the use of DeltaV SimulatePro and HYSYS Plant licenses.

Advanced pH Measurement and Control, 3rd Edition

Cameron, Robert A.

Building on the knowledge and the goals of the best-selling book, Advanced Control Unleashed, this portable pocket guide goes beyond theoretical concepts and provides new insight into the implementation practices after the objectives have been defined and the technology decisions have been made. 
Recognizing the opportunity that models present to capture and exploit plant knowledge, the authors share their expertise on the concepts, procedures, and examples needed to construct and apply different models through the use of "state of the art" software for simulation and model predictive control. 
You don't need an advanced degree to get the most out of this pocket guide. Models Unleashed will help engineers closest to the application take advantage of their experience by embedding it in a model and a control system.

Models Unleashed: Virtual Plant and Model Predictive Control Applications

Cameron, Robert

ISA: The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

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