(Ebook) Instrument engineers' handbook. Process software and digital networks by Béla G Lipták ISBN 9780849310829, 0849310822

(Ebook) Instrument engineers' handbook. Process software and digital networks by Béla G Lipták ISBN 9780849310829, 0849310822

Content: Overall Plant Design -- Auditing Existing Plants for Upgrading -- Project Management and Documentation -- Operator Training, Commissioning, and Start-Up -- Flowsheet Symbols and Functional Diagramming for Digitally Implemented Loops -- Historical Data Storage and Evaluation -- Integration of Process Data with Maintenance Systems -- Applications, Standards, and Products for Grounding and Shielding -- Concepts of Hierarchical Control -- Analog or Discrete Input/Output, Costs and Signal Processing -- Estimating the Costs of Control System Packages -- Designing a Safe Plant -- Hazardous Area Classification -- Intrinsic Safety Rules for Fieldbus Installations -- Purging and Inerting Systems -- High-Integrity Pressure Protection Systems -- Process Safety Management -- Redundant or Voting Systems for Increased Reliability -- Network Security -- Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Operation -- Reliability Engineering Concepts -- Intelligent Alarm Management -- Safety Instrumentation and Justification of Its Cost -- International Safety Standards and Certification (ANSI/ISA-S84, IEC 61511/61508/62061, ISO 13849) -- Control Center, Workstation, and Logic Design -- Operator Interface Evolution -- Virtual Reality Tools for Testing Control Room Concepts -- Upgrading the Control Room -- Manufacturing Platforms and Workstations -- Workstation Hosts: Design Concepts and Classification -- Integration of DCS, PLC, HMI, and SCADA Systems -- Integration with RTUs, Multiplexers, Fieldbuses, and Data Highways.