Making Computer Control Work in the Process Industries
Author : A. Browes
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : A. Browes
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : VijayP. Bhatkar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1351454692
A reference guide for professionals or text for graduate and postgraduate students, this volume emphasizes practical designs and applications of distributed computer control systems. It demonstrates how to improve plant productivity, enhance product quality, and increase the safety, reliability, and
Author : Frank Lees
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 3708 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2005-01-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080489338
Over the last three decades the process industries have grown very rapidly, with corresponding increases in the quantities of hazardous materials in process, storage or transport. Plants have become larger and are often situated in or close to densely populated areas. Increased hazard of loss of life or property is continually highlighted with incidents such as Flixborough, Bhopal, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, the Phillips 66 incident, and Piper Alpha to name but a few. The field of Loss Prevention is, and continues to, be of supreme importance to countless companies, municipalities and governments around the world, because of the trend for processing plants to become larger and often be situated in or close to densely populated areas, thus increasing the hazard of loss of life or property. This book is a detailed guidebook to defending against these, and many other, hazards. It could without exaggeration be referred to as the "bible" for the process industries. This is THE standard reference work for chemical and process engineering safety professionals. For years, it has been the most complete collection of information on the theory, practice, design elements, equipment, regulations and laws covering the field of process safety. An entire library of alternative books (and cross-referencing systems) would be needed to replace or improve upon it, but everything of importance to safety professionals, engineers and managers can be found in this all-encompassing reference instead. Frank Lees' world renowned work has been fully revised and expanded by a team of leading chemical and process engineers working under the guidance of one of the world’s chief experts in this field. Sam Mannan is professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University, and heads the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M. He received his MS and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and joined the chemical engineering department at Texas A&M University as a professor in 1997. He has over 20 years of experience as an engineer, working both in industry and academia. New detail is added to chapters on fire safety, engineering, explosion hazards, analysis and suppression, and new appendices feature more recent disasters. The many thousands of references have been updated along with standards and codes of practice issued by authorities in the US, UK/Europe and internationally. In addition to all this, more regulatory relevance and case studies have been included in this edition. Written in a clear and concise style, Loss Prevention in the Process Industries covers traditional areas of personal safety as well as the more technological aspects and thus provides balanced and in-depth coverage of the whole field of safety and loss prevention. * A must-have standard reference for chemical and process engineering safety professionals * The most complete collection of information on the theory, practice, design elements, equipment and laws that pertain to process safety * Only single work to provide everything; principles, practice, codes, standards, data and references needed by those practicing in the field
Author : Stuart Bennett
Publisher : IET
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780863412202
Based on a series of lectures given at a Vacation School for postgraduate students in the areas of control and instrumentation, held at the University of Sheffield. It covers four major themes: design and tuning of controllers, the hardware technology, software design and applications.
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Page : 918 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Labor
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Author : Philip J Thomas
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080517242
Computer simulation is the key to comprehending and controlling the full-scale industrial plant used in the chemical, oil, gas and electrical power industries. Simulation of Industrial Processes for Control Engineers shows how to use the laws of physics and chemistry to produce the equations to simulate dynamically all the most important unit operations found in process and power plant.The book explains how to model chemical reactors, nuclear reactors, distillation columns, boilers, deaerators, refrigeration vessels, storage vessels for liquids and gases, liquid and gas flow through pipes and pipe networks, liquid and gas flow through installed control valves, control valve dynamics (including nonlinear effects such as static friction), oil and gas pipelines, heat exchangers, steam and gas turbines, compressors and pumps, as well as process controllers (including three methods of integral desaturation). The phenomenon of markedly different time responses ("stiffness") is considered and various ways are presented to get around the potential problem of slow execution time. The book demonstrates how linearization may be used to give a diverse check on the correctness of the as-programmed model and explains how formal techniques of model validation may be used to produce a quantitative check on the simulation model's overall validity.The material is based on many years' experience of modelling and simulation in the chemical and power industries, supplemented in recent years by university teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Several important new results are presented. The depth is sufficient to allow real industrial problems to be solved, thus making the book attractive to engineers working in industry. But the book's step-by-step approach makes the text appropriate also for post-graduate students of control engineering and for undergraduate students in electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering who are studying process control in their second year or later.
Author :
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 3685 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0080962319
Author : Toni Ivergard
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1420064347
First published two decades ago, the first edition of Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A Perspective for the Future became a benchmark for the field. Current-day process control encompasses a new generation of computer systems with enormous capabilities, including new display technologies. These new and emerging technologies integrat
Author : E. O'shima
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1483298329
The papers within this volume reflect the multidisciplinary approach taken by the workshop to the development and improvement of existing production control theories and practices as applied to the process industry. Subjects covered include production planning, quality control and assurance, operational control and maintenance strategy. The development of this area is seen by those at the workshop as only being achieved by various groups working together rather than in isolation, so that the overall aim of production control is not lost in too much detail. This volume will provide the reader with essential information on new initiatives in the process industry with regard to production control.
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Labor
ISBN :
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.