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Suppose we wished to measure the consumption of propane over time for a large propane storage tank supplying a…
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An variable-area flowmeter is one where the fluid must pass through a restriction whose area increases with…
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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 different strategy for controlling the flow of fluid is to insert a rotary element into the flow path.…
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In this section I will show screenshots from a process loop simulation program illustrating the effectiveness…
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Those familiar with industrial instrumentation will find much within the electric power industry remarkably…
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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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Visualizing the actions of P, I, and D tuning parameters using graphs is extremely useful in predicting the…
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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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The very purpose of physics is to quantitatively describe and explain the physical world in as few terms as…
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Cyber-security seems to have its own vocabulary, ranging from unwieldy technical acronyms to slang terms…
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For better or worse, there are no fewer than three different forms of PID equations implemented in modern PID…
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While the term “probability” may evoke images of imprecision, probability is in fact an exact…
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Any physical location in an industrial facility harboring the potential of explosion due to the presence of…
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Labwork is an essential part of any science-based curriculum. Here, much improvement may be made over the…
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As we have seen, the concept of differentiation is finding the rate-of-change of one variable compared to…
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As previously defined, calibration refers to the checking and adjustment of an instrument so that its output…
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pH is the measurement of the hydrogen ion activity in a liquid solution. It is one of the most common forms of…
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As we have seen, the concept of integration is finding the accumulation of one variable multiplied by another…
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