To summarize some of the key points and concepts for teaching: Do not waste class time transmitting facts to…
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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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Perhaps the most important rule to obey when using pneumatic instruments is to maintain clean and dry…
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When control valves operate between fully open and fully shut, they serve much the same purpose in process…
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The following animation shows the calculus concepts of differentiation and integration (with respect to time)…
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Converting between disparate units of measurement is the bane of many science students. The problem is worse…
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Finally, we arrive at the loop diagram (sometimes called a loop sheet) for the compressor surge control system…
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One of the fundamental laws of electric circuits is Kirchhoff’s Current Law, which states the algebraic…
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Feedback obtained from industrial users of FF reveal a common pattern: Fieldbus is a powerful and reliable…
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So far we have just looked at instruments that sense, control, and influence process variables. Transmitters,…
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An extremely important topic in engineering is that of transfer functions. Simply defined, a transfer function…
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I remember first learning about the world-wide Internet, and wondering what it actually looked like. The first…
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A technological advance introduced in the late 1980’s was HART, an acronym standing for Highway…
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The transformer is one of the most important components in all of AC circuitry. Principally used to…
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In this section I will show screenshots from a process loop simulation program illustrating the effectiveness…
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In order to provide an interface between the internal (digital) world of a computer and the external (analog)…
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Atom: the smallest unit of matter that may be isolated by chemical means. Particle: a part of an atom,…
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Modern DC and AC motor drives provide features useful when using electric motors as final control elements.…
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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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Visualizing the actions of P, I, and D tuning parameters using graphs is extremely useful in predicting the…
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