The vast majority of PID controllers in service today are digital in nature. Microprocessors executing PID…
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Tube, like pipe, is a hollow structure designed to provide an enclosed pathway for fluids to flow. In the case…
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Imagine a liquid-level control system for a vessel, where the position of a level-sensing float sets the…
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Learning is not merely a process of information transfer. It is first and foremost a transformation of…
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Perhaps the simplest form of solid or liquid level measurement is with a float: a device that rides on the…
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An interesting parallel to the “unity fraction” unit conversion technique is something referred to…
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In November of 2007 a new computer virus was submitted to a virus scanning service. The purpose of this new…
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Many traditional flowmeter technologies respond to the volumetric flow rate of the moving fluid.…
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The vast majority of modern process transmitters (both analog and digital) come equipped with a feature known…
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The Law of Continuity for fluids states that the product of mass density (\(\rho\)), cross-sectional pipe area…
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Disconnect Switches Disconnects are switches designed to isolate sections of a power system in case of damage…
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Much has been written about the benefits of robust PID control. Increased productivity, decreased equipment…
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Most pneumatic instruments use a simple but highly sensitive mechanism for converting mechanical motion into…
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A great many precision instruments use the principle of balance to measure some quantity. Perhaps the simplest…
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Capacitive level instruments measure electrical capacitance of a conductive rod inserted vertically into a…
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A Safety Instrumented Function, or SIF, is one or more components designed to execute a specific…
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Every programmable logic controller must have some means of receiving and interpreting signals from real-world…
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A quantitative PID tuning procedure is a step-by-step approach leading directly to a set of numerical values…
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