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The Tao of Measurement: A Philosophical View of Flow and Sensors By Jesse Yoder and Dick Morley This book deals with the past, present, and future of flow, sensors, and measurement. It is called The Tao of Measurement because, like the Tao itself, it reveals the underlying principles of flow and measurement. This book explains the engineering and physics of: • Flow and sensors • How our units of measurement were derived • Present day measurement practices • How today’s scientific tools can improve our units of measurement ISA Member Price: $63.00 Affiliate Member Price: $70.00 Community Member/List Price: $79.00 ISBN: 978-0-876640-91-3 URL: www.isa.org/taoofmeasurement
Advances in Reactor Measurement and Control By Gregory K. McMillan Written from a practical perspective, Advances in Reactor Measurement and Control underscores how control system design can address the different process responses and fundamental characteristics of the major types of reactors in the process industry. • Learn what measurements, control strategies, controller features, and tuning parameters will achieve process objectives for a given type of reactor • Be able to design, implement, and support straightforward configurations based on the type of process equipment • Material in this book represents knowledge from leading participants in the ISA Mentor Program ISA Member Price: $63.00 Affiliate Member Price: $71.00 Community Member/List Price: $79.00 ISBN: 978-0-87665-089-0 URL: www.isa.org/reactorcontrol
The Value of Automation: The Best Investment an Industrial Company Can Make By Peter G. Martin, PhD Industrial automation systems have the potential to be one of the most value-generating vehicles available to industrial companies. Unfortunately, not all managers of industrial companies perceive automation system that way and few industrial automation systems actually provide the value they could and should. There are a number of reasons for this such as: • The value provided by automation systems is not wellmeasured • The value provided by automation systems is not visible • The capital budgeting process of most industrial companies is flawed • Project engineering teams are typically not measured on the incremental business value of their projects ISA Member Price: $70.00 Affiliate Member Price: $80.00 Community Member/List Price: $89.00 ISBN: 978-0-87664-092-0 URL: www.isa.org/value
Measurement and Control Basics, Fifth Edition By Thomas A. Hughes Ideal for classroom use or self-study, this newly updated, best-selling book has provided thousands of students, technicians, engineers, and sales people with a practical introduction to the principles, technologies, and strategies used in industrial process control. New information in this edition includes: • Improved coverage of process control computers and industrial networks • Sections added on human machine interface (HMI), wireless devices, and networks • Solutions to exercises that make it more suitable for self-study ISA Member Price: $99.00 Affiliated Member Price: $112.00 Community Member/List Price: $125.00 ISBN: 978-0-97664-014-2 URL: www.isa.org/mandcbasics
Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide, Fourth Edition By Gregory K. McMillan Every practicing instrument, process control, and process engineer will want to have this practical and to-the-point pocket guide on good tuning. Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide, Fourth Edition is a portable, concise summary of the practical considerations for tuning loops. This edition includes: • Step-by-step descriptions of the three best, field-proven tuning procedures • A table of typical tuning settings • A summary of valve performance problems • Logic diagrams for trouble-shooting • More than 70 “rules of thumb” ISA Member Price: $47.00 Affiliated Member Price: $53.00 Community Member/List Price: $59.00 ISBN: 978-1-941546-43-7 URL: www.isa.org/tuningpocket
Tuning of Industrial Control Systems, Third Edition By Armando B. Corripio, PhD, PE and Michael Newell In this third edition, the authors’ aim has been to simplify and demystify the procedure of tuning control systems based on their successful tuning work in oil refineries. All of the example responses have been generated using simulation software to illustrate the tuning and show the difference between: • Tuning controllable versus dead-time dominated loops • Averaging versus tight level control • Cascade control versus simple feedback control of a jacketed chemical reactor • Feedforward control versus simple feedback control • Decoupler control versus simple feedback control of a blender ISA Member Price: $87.00 Affiliated Member Price: $98.00 Community Member/List Price: $109.00 ISBN: 978-0-87664-034-0 URL: www.isa.org/tuningsystems
Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook By Austin Bryan, Elizabeth Smith, and Kevin Mitchell With the release of the ISA-TR84.00.07 technical report on performancebased design of fire and gas detection systems for process industries, risk-based techniques for detector placement have become prevalent in fire and gas system (FGS) design. While the technical report addresses designing the FGS based on the user’s risk profile and performance requirements, it does not provide any guidance on implementing the FGS lifecycle. This book provides: • An overview of the FGS design lifecycle presented in the technical report • An examination of each phase of the lifecycle and the practical activities required to develop an FGS design • Valuable appendices that contain data for FGS system risk analysis, FGS risk grading procedures, and FGS mapping techniques ISA Member Price: $55.00 Affiliated Member Price: $62.00 Community Member/List Price: $69.00 ISBN: 978-1-941546-45-1 URL: www.isa.org/fireandgas
Wireless Control Foundation: Continuous and Discrete Control for the Process Industry By Terrence Blevins, Deji Chen, Mark Nixon, and Willy Wojsznis In this book, the authors address the wireless communication concepts and terminology that are needed to apply wireless control in the process industry. The control system interfaces and wireless field devices described in this book are based on wireless standards for industrial settings and can be used in monitoring and control applications. This book: • Details the recent technical innovations that address control using wireless measurements and final control elements • Describes how control can be structured to manage the slow and non-periodic measurement update rates provided by a wireless transmitter • Explains how to compensate for communication delay to the final control element ISA Member Price: $99.00 Affiliate Member Price: $112.00 Community Member/List Price: $125.00 ISBN: 978-0-87664-088-3 URL: www.isa.org/wirelesscontrol
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