Control and Automation: Volume Two- Process Automation

$209.00

This guidebook is devoted to understanding and choosing control equipment for specific operations and plant variables. Flow control based on control valves and variable-speed pumps, the automation of solids weighing processes, distillation, and control strategies based on real-time particle size measurements are covered.

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Description

The second volume in Chemical Engineering’s series on control and automation examines control systems at the plant level before moving on to discuss control strategies for particular process operations and plant variables.

This guidebook is devoted to understanding and choosing control equipment for specific operations and plant variables. Flow control based on control valves and variable-speed pumps, the automation of solids weighing processes, distillation, and control strategies based on real-time particle size measurements are covered.

Delivered in a PDF format, 74 pages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Automation Introduction

  • Today’s Process Automation Worlds
  • Facts At Your Fingertips: Choosing a Control System
  • PLC Maintenance Management

Control Room Design

  • Prevent Plant Upsets
  • Enterprise Management
  • The Path to the Perfect Plant

Simulation

  • Connecting Process Simulators to the Control Room

Batch Control

  • Batch Control: Controller- Versus Server-Based Sequencers

Flow Control

  • Control Valves: An Evolution In Design
  • Control Valve Diagnositics
  • Feature Report: Advances in Valve Position Monitoring
  • Variable Frequency Drives for Centrifugal Pumps

Weighing

  • Automating Your Weigh Batching System
  • Facts At Your Fingertips: Automated Weigh-Batching Systems

Particle Size

  • Control Strategies Based On Realtime Particle Size Analysis

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