Technological advances abound in today’s world of instrumentation but much of it depends on conventional sensing technology that has been around for more than 50 years. Many of the instrumentation or sensor problems that exist today are similar to those which we have seen over the past years. Addressing these problems, Sensor Performance and Reliability describes several new instrumentation testing, diagnostics, and analysis techniques to verify the reliability, health, and performance of process instrumentation. This book helps you understand how to objectively assess the accuracy, response time, residual life and other characteristics of installed instrumentation and offers a practical means to identify the problems, assess their consequences, and help resolve some of the problems. It provides applications in a number of industries such as power, chemical, aerospace, and others. In-situ methods for sensor response time testing and calibration, on-line measurements to identify blockages and voids in pressure sensing lines, and other examples will be covered.
List of Figures
Acronyms
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Physical Characteristics of Industrial RTDs
Chapter 3 : Physical Characteristics of Thermocouples
Chapter 4 : Physical Characteristics of Pressure Sensors
Chapter 5 : Performance Specification of Temperature and Pressure Sensors
Chapter 6 : Accuracy of Temperature Sensors
Chapter 7 : Accuracy of Pressure Transmitters
Chapter 8 : Calibration Traceability of Temperature and Pressure Sensors
Chapter 9 : Fundamentals of Dynamic Response
Chapter 10 : Laboratory Measurement of Response Time of Temperature Sensors
Chapter 11 : Response Time Testing Methods for Pressure Transmitters
Chapter 12 : In-Situ Response Time Testing of Temperature Sensors
Chapter 13 : In-Situ Response Time Testing of Pressure Transmitters
Chapter 14 : Pressure Sensing Line Problems and Solutions
Chapter 15 : In-Situ Methods to Verify the Calibration of Process Instruments
Chapter 16 : Aging Effects and Failure Potential of Process Instrumentation
Chapter 17 : In-Situ Testing of Cables
Chapter 18 : In-Situ Diagnostics of Temperature Sensors
Chapter 19 : Applications
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index
