Process Control Instrumentation Technology, Pearson New International Edition, 8th edition

For Sophomore/Junior-level courses in Automatic Control Systems, Process Controls, and Instrumentation and Measurement.

This text is designed to provide students with an understanding and appreciation of some of the essential concepts behind control system elements and operations, without the need of advanced math and theory. It also presents some of the practical details of how elements of a control system are designed and operated, such as would be gained from on-the-job experience. This edition includes treatment of modern fieldbus approaches to networked and distributed control systems. This middle ground of knowledge enables students to design the elements of a control system from a practical, working perspective, and comprehend how these elements affect overall system operation and tuning.

• Rewritten and renamed section on Industrial Electronics—Now called Power Electronics, updated to include more current devices such as GTOs, MOSFETs and IGBTs.
• Supplies students with a brief up-to-date summary of these electronics topics.
• Expanded treatment of modern control systems and fieldbuses—Chapter 11 features improved coverage of computer-based controllers and distributed control.
• Provides students with a look at the rapidly developing field of control system networks.
• Re-worked examples and problems.
• Up-to-date coverage of measurement, instrumentation, and control—e.g. smart sensors, embedded control systems and enhanced P&ID.
• Provides students with complete coverage of new technologies and how they apply to process control instrumentation.
• Enhanced and rewritten treatment of PLCs.
• Shows students how this technology has increased its application base in modern industry.
• Straightforward writing style—Technical writing without obscure jargon and mathematics.
• Helps students readily understand and adapt new technology to measurement and instrumentation problems.
• Embedded examples demonstrate applications.
• Leads students to an understanding about how to design applications in measurement, PLCs and control systems.
• Variety of Problems —From very basic to complex real-world design.
• Provides students with an opportunity to test their knowledge with challenging but realistic problems as they might encounter in an employment situation.
• Practical coverage of analog and digital signal conditioning.
• Provides students with real details of the latest technology regarding how a signal conditioning system should be designed.
• Coverage of non-Laplace controller/compensator action.
• Allows instructors to teach and students to learn this topic without advanced math and only a modest need for calculus.
• Programmable Logic Controller programming.
• Shows students how to learn the essentials of PLC programming using a generic model.

Rewritten and renamed section on Industrial Electronics–Now called Power Electronics, updated to include more current devices such as GTOs, MOSFETs and IGBTs.

~Supplies students with a brief up-to-date summary of these electronics topics.

Expanded treatment of modern control systems and fieldbuses–Chapter 11 features improved coverage of computer-based controllers and distributed control.

~Provides students with a look at the rapidly developing field of control system networks.

Re-worked examples and problems.

~Provides students with an improved, more clarified and correct presentation.