Features

This newly updated text provides a detailed description of the operation of instruments and their controls. Large full-color illustrations are used to detail fundamental theory and operating principles of instrumentation in industry. Common applications used in control of manufacturing and other processes are included throughout the text.

Instrumentation covers industrial communications from traditional pneumatic to state-of-the-art digital and wireless communication systems including Fieldbus, Hart™, and Ethernet. Also included is a new chapter on safety systems that addresses common safety devices and systems such as relief valves, rupture discs, burner control systems, hazardous location classifications, enclosures, and safety instrumented systems (SIS). Instrumentation also includes up-to-date information on wireless communications.

Each text contains a CD-ROM with Quick Quizzes^®, an Illustrated Glossary, Instrumentation Resources, and Reference Material. These activities enhance the content to provide additional information and assessment.

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