Instrument Engineers' Handbook, (Volume 3) Third Edition: Process Software and Digital Networks

Hardback  912 pp  ISBN 0849310822      £97.00

• Brings order into the chaos of the claims of competing networks and buses
• Proposes international standardization for all digital systems
• Presents fully open and completely interoperable networks
• Covers not only the American, but the global market for digital networks
• Provides quick access to specific information via an excellent index

If you buy the three-volume set of the Instrument Engineers Handbook, you will have everything a process control engineer or instrumentation technician needs. If you buy Instrument Engineers' Handbook, Third Edition: Process Software and Digital Networks you will have at your fingertips all the software and digital network related information that is needed by I&C engineers. It will be the resource you reach for over and over again.

Contents

THE OVERALL PLANT DESIGN: Auditing Existing Plants for Upgrading; Project Management and Documentation; Operator Training, Commissioning and Start-Up; Flowsheet Symbols and Functional Diagramming for Digitally Implemented Loops; Historical Data Storage and Evaluation; Integration of Process Data with Maintenance Systems; Applications, Standards and Products for Grounding, Shielding; Concepts of Hierarchical Control; Analog or Discrete I/O, Costs, Features and Digital Signal Processing; Estimating the Costs of Control System Packages.

DESIGNING A PLANT: Hazardous Area Classifications and Instrument Design Options; Intrinsic Safety Rules for Fieldbus Installations; Purging and Inerting Systems; High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS); Process Safety Management (PSM); Redundant or Voting Systems for Increased Reliability; Network Security; Safety Instrumented Systems - Design, Analysis, Inspection; Reliability Engineering Concepts; Intelligent Alarm Management - IAM; Safety Instrumentation and the Justification of its Costs; International Safety Standards and Certification.

CONTROL CENTER, WORKSTATION AND LOGIC DESIGN: Operator Interface Evolution; Virtual Reality Tools for Testing Control Room Concepts; Upgrading the Control Room; Manufacturing Platforms and Workstations; Workstation Hosts: Design Concepts and Classifications; Integration of DCS, PLC, HMI AND SCADA Systems; Integration with RTUs, Multiplexers, Fieldbuses and Data Highways; Hybrid Systems with Discrete and Analog Capability; SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition; PLC Programming; Fault Tolerant Programming and Real Time Operating Systems; Practical Logic Design.

BUSES AND NETWORKS: An Introduction Networks in Process Automation; PLC Proprietary and Open Networks; Hardware Selection for Fieldbus Systems; Sorting Out the Protocols; Overall Fieldbus Trends; Fieldbus Advantages and Disadvantages; Fieldbus Design, Installation, Economics and Documentation; Instrumentation Network Design and Upgrade; Global System Architectures; The Advantages and Limitations of Open Networks; HART Networks; Foundation Fieldbus Network;

PROFIBUS PA; Designing Profibus-PA and Foundation Fieldbus Segments; Ethernet and TCP/IP Based Systems; Fieldbus Networks Catering to Specific Niches of Industry; Proprietary Networks; Fiber Optic Networks; Satellite, IR, Radio, Wireless LAN Networks.

SOFTWARE PACKAGES: Control Loop Optimization; Data Reconciliation; Sequence of Event Recorders and Post Trip Review; OPC Software Architecture; Batch Software State of the Art; Plant-Wide Control Loop Optimization; Plant-Wide Controller Performance Monitoring; The "Virtual Plant," A Tool of Better Understanding.

APPENDIX: International System of Units; Engineering Conversion Factors; Chemical Resistance of Materials; Composition of Materials; Steam and Water Tables; Friction Loss in Pipes; Tank Volumes; Partial List of Suppliers.