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Pipe is a hollow structure designed to provide an enclosed pathway for fluids to flow, usually manufactured…
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A very common method for directly controlling low flow rates of fluids is to use a device known as a metering…
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Capacitance Any two electrical conductors separated by an insulating medium possess the characteristic called…
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A temperature switch is one detecting the temperature of some substance. Temperature switches often use…
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In a manually-controlled process, a human operator directly actuates some form of final control element…
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Two extremely important principles in electric circuits were codified by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff in the year…
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Several different technologies exist for the conversion of fluid pressure into an electrical signal response.…
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The two “process variables” we rely on most heavily in the field of electrical measurement and…
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Stoichiometry is the accounting of atoms before and after a chemical reaction. It is an expression of the Law…
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Measuring the flow rate of liquid through an open channel is not unlike measuring the flow rate of a liquid…
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Cyber-security seems to have its own vocabulary, ranging from unwieldy technical acronyms to slang terms…
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Recall that an exothermic chemical reaction is one that releases a net sum of energy, as opposed to an…
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Learning from reading printed text is a kind of problem-solving activity it is own right. The problem is how…
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There are many process control applications in the industry where it is desirable to have multiple control…
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To understand just how different FOUNDATION Fieldbus is from other digital instrument systems, consider a…
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The most popular form of signal transmission used in modern industrial instrumentation systems (as of this…
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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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A wise PLC programmer once told me that the first thing any aspiring programmer should learn about the PLC…
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Every flow-measuring instrument exploits a physical principle to measure the flow rate of fluid stream.…
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