Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Theory and Practice - Softcover

Love, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447168194 ISBN 13: 9781447168195

Publisher: Springer, 2016

Synopsis

Preface. .......................................... ................................ xi Acknowledgements . ............................. ................................ xv Biography ....................................... ................................ xix Contents . ........................................ ................................ xxi Part I: Technology and Practice 1Introduction .............................. ................................ 3 2 Instrumentation .......................... ................................ 55 3 Final Control Elements ................... ................................ 123 4 Conventional Control Strategies .......... ................................ 147 5 Process Control Schemes ................. ................................ 207 6 Digital Control Systems ................... ................................ 277 7 Control Technology . ...................... ................................ 377 8 Management of Automation Projects ..... ................................ 463 Part II: Theory and Technique 9 Maths and Control Theory . ............... ................................ 565 10 Plant and Process Dynamics .............. ................................ 699 11 Simulation ................................ ................................ 771 12 Advanced Process Automation ........... ................................ 803 13 Advanced Process Control ................ ................................ 963 Bibliography .................................... ................................ 1047 Abbreviations and Acronyms ................... ................................ 1055 Index . ........................................... ................................ 1065 Foreword The process industries are subject to increasing changes. These include globali- tion, increased earning per share expectation, increasing safety and environmental legislation, staff retirement, shortage of engineers and increasingly rapid evolution of technology. To be successful, process manufacturing companies must respond by: Consistently improving safety and environmental performance Becoming more responsive to customers Reducing manufacturing costs Reducing working capital Improving equipment life There are many approaches to achieving these improvements such as improvement of process equipment and ?owsheets, staff training, work process improvement, organizational restructuring and, in particular, process automation.

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About the Author

Jonathan Love has a variety of experience and expertise in the analysis, design, development and operation of instrumentation and control systems as used for the automation of plant in the chemical, process and oil industries. His early academic career involved lectureships at Huddersfield, Leeds and Sheffield Universities. He is currently in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials at Newcastle University where he is Director of the Integrated Graduate Development Scheme (IGDS) in Process Automation. His industrial experience consists of periods working as a commissioning engineer for Akzo Nobel (formerly Courtaulds Ltd) and as a control engineer for Honeywell Process Solutions (formerly KBC Process Automation). He is currently Principal Automation Consultant for BP Exploration and Production.

From the Back Cover

To be effective as an engineer practicing in the field of process automation requires a breadth of knowledge across a wide range of disciplines: chemical engineering, instrumentation, electrical engineering, control theory, mathematics, computing and management.

Previously published books exist in these areas but most are generic and, of those that are applied in nature, few are oriented towards the actual needs of the chemical and process industry. It is impractical for engineers and unreasonable for students to have to cope with this spectrum of material and lack of emphasis. The objective of Process Automation Handbook has been to distil into a single coherent handbook all the essentials of process automation at a depth sufficient for most practical purposes.

The handbook focuses on the knowledge needed to cope with the vast majority of process control and automation situations. In doing so, a number of sensible balances have been carefully struck between breadth and depth, theory and practice, classical and modern, technology and technique, information and understanding. A thorough grounding is provided for every topic. If more detailed information is required, the reader is referred to more specialised texts in the knowledge that he or she has been provided with a sound platform to ask the right questions and understand the answers.

Process Automation Handbook will be of value to any engineer actively concerned with process control and automation in the chemical and process industries and final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying process control.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447168194
• ISBN 13: 9781447168195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1141