Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition

Book by The International Society of Automation, 01/01/2005

Gregory K. McMillan

Full Description

Every practicing instrument, process control, and process engineer will want to have this practical and to the point pocket guide on good tuning. Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition is a portable, concise summary of all the practical considerations for tuning loops. It includes step-by-step descriptions of the three best field-proven tuning procedures, a table of typical tuning settings, a summary of valve performance problems, logic diagrams for troubleshooting, and over 70 "rules of thumb". Wherever you have data and tuning access, you can estimate the settings for configuring new loops to review and improve the tuning of existing loops.

This second edition includes a new section on methods for reducing valve backlash and sticktion, and preventing excessive sensor lag and noise. It also has new chapters on adaptive control and the application recommendations and considerations for batch control, boilers, crystallizers, columns, dryers, evaporators, extruders, neutralizers, reactors, and many other types of process equipment.