A sliding-stem valve body is one where the moving parts slide with a linear motion. Some examples of…
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“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps…
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An important design parameter of a control valve is the position it will “fail” to if it loses…
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Certain types of nuclear radiation easily penetrates the walls of industrial vessels, but is attenuated by…
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The Law of Mass Conservation states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. The Law of Energy…
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A Safety Instrumented Function, or SIF, is one or more components designed to execute a specific…
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In order for any PID controller to be practical, it must be able to do more than just implement the PID…
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These fortifications focus on human behavior rather than system design or component selection. In some ways…
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Visualizing the actions of P, I, and D tuning parameters using graphs is extremely useful in predicting the…
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Those familiar with industrial instrumentation will find much within the electric power industry remarkably…
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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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Two extremely important principles in electric circuits were codified by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff in the year…
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Process measurements are often of an analog nature: the temperature of a furnace, the rate of fluid flow…
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A whole class of problem-solving techniques focuses on altering the given problem into a simpler form that is…
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At the root of successful system diagnosis is a rigorous adherence to scientific reasoning. There exists no…
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Displacer level instruments exploit Archimedes’ Principle to detect liquid level by continuously…
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Some of the simplest types of digital communication networks found in industry are defined by the EIA…
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An engineer named Bob Metcalfe conceived the idea of Ethernet in 1973, while working for the Xerox research…
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Temperature measurement devices may be classified into two broad types: contact and non-contact. Contact-type…
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