Instrumentation: A Reader

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Future instrumentation: its effect on production and research

   • R. Shaw

   Pages 1-11

3. Sensors for mechanical properties

   • R. S. Medlock

   Pages 12-23

4. Digital transducers

   • G. A. Woolvet

   Pages 24-38

5. Smart pressure transmitters

   • A. T. Bradshaw

   Pages 39-44

6. On-line measurement of liquid density

   • Conrad H. Hoeppner

   Pages 45-54

7. Measuring mass flow using the Coriolis principle

   • K. O. Plache

   Pages 55-62

8. Humidity in air and gases

   • A. K. Michell

   Pages 63-67

9. Development and application of a 0.14 g piezoelectric accelerometer

   • Howard C. Epstein

   Pages 68-74

10. The use of ultrasonic techniques for non-invasive instrumentation on chemical and process plant

    • R. C. Asher

    Pages 75-81

11. Level and density measurement using non-contact nuclear gauges

    • David R. Carlson

    Pages 82-90

12. Analytical instruments for process control

    • K. G. Carr-Brion

    Pages 91-101

13. Silicon sensors meet integrated circuits

    • Phillip W. Barth

    Pages 102-113

14. Optical measurement methods

    • Robert Jones

    Pages 114-124

15. Sensing with optical fibres: an emerging technology

    • Albert R. Tebo

    Pages 125-133

16. Feedback in instruments and its applications

    • B. E. Jones

    Pages 134-150

17. Communications in process control

    • P. R. Matthews

    Pages 151-170

18. Measurement errors and instrument inaccuracies

    • M. J. Cunningham

    Pages 171-183

19. How to calibrate flowmeters and velocity meters

    • A. T. J. Hayward

    Pages 184-199

20. Noise suppression and prevention in piezoelectric transducer systems

    • Jon Wilson

    Pages 200-207

This book contains a selection of papers and articles in instrumentation previously pub­ lished in technical periodicals and journals of learned societies. Our selection has been made to illustrate aspects of current practice and applications of instrumentation. The book does not attempt to be encyclopaedic in its coverage of the subject, but to provide some examples of general transduction techniques, of the sensing of particular measurands, of components of instrumentation systems and of instrumentation practice in two very different environments, the food industry and the nuclear power industry. We have made the selection particularly to provide papers appropriate to the study of the Open University course T292 Instrumentation. The papers have been chosen so that the book covers a wide spectrum of instrumentation techniques. Because of this, the book should be of value not only to students of instrumen­ tation, but also to practising engineers and scientists wishing to glean ideas from areas of instrumentation outside their own fields of expertise. In recent years instrumentation has emerged as a discipline in its own right rather than as an adjunct to traditional science and engineering disciplines. This development has been driven partly by the needs of industries for new and improved sensing techniques, and partly by new technological developments such as microprocessors, optical fibres and in­ tegrated silicon sensors which are revolutionising sensing and signal processing practice.

• Gauge
• Sensor
• accelerometer
• communication
• development
• integrated circuit
• production

• The Open University, China

  R. Loxton, P. Pope

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