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A much simpler alternative to continuous vibration sensors (displacement or acceleration) and monitoring…
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Valves can experience a number of problems, most of them either preventable or repairable. These problems can…
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One of the most important accessories for any temperature-sensing element is a pressure-tight sheath known as…
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Several different technologies exist for the conversion of fluid pressure into an electrical signal response.…
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Most pneumatic instruments use a simple but highly sensitive mechanism for converting mechanical motion into…
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Multiple accessories exist for pressure-sensing devices to function optimally in challenging process…
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Phasors are to AC circuit quantities as polarity is to DC circuit quantities: a way to express the…
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These fortifications focus on human behavior rather than system design or component selection. In some ways…
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A limitation inherent to pneumatic valve actuators is the amount of air flow required to or from the actuator…
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DC electric motors generate torque by a reaction between two magnetic fields: one field established by…
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Sample sizes of chemical substances are often measured in moles. One mole of a substance is defined as a…
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An extremely important topic in engineering is that of transfer functions. Simply defined, a transfer function…
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The dispersion of visible light into its constituent colors goes all the way back to the 17th century with…
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Many traditional flowmeter technologies respond to the volumetric flow rate of the moving fluid.…
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A variety of technologies exist to measure the quantity of stored material in a vessel. For liquid…
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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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Light has long been used as a long-range signaling medium. While communication by light through open air is…
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The simplest form of 4-20 mA current loop is the type used to represent the output of a process controller,…
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A great many chemical composition measurements may be made indirectly by means of electricity, if those…
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