Practical Thermocouple Thermometry, 2nd Edition

Title: Practical Thermocouple Thermometry, 2nd Edition
Author: Mitchell Johnson, Thomas W. Kerlin
ISBN: 1937560279 / 9781937560270
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 181
Publisher: ISA
Year: 2012
Availability: Out of Stock

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Whether your background is engineering, procurement, or maintenance, this comprehensive book will help you achieve good performance with thermocouples. Building on the first edition, authors Tom Kerlin and Mitch Johnson have updated the second edition of Practical Thermocouple Thermometry to include the latest in thermocouple technology. They called upon their 60 plus years of collective experience in theory, research, teaching, manufacturing and real-world applications to produce this second edition. Updates include:

  • real-world case studies demonstrating solutions of thermocouple problems
  • properties and performance of all commonly used thermocouple types
  • innovative applications of thermocouples
  • expanded information on thermowell selection for required reliability

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Preface to the Second Edition

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Fundamentals
Chapter 3 : Measuring Temperature with a Thermocouple
Chapter 4 : Thermocouple Configurations
Chapter 5 : Thermocouple Types
Chapter 6 : Thermocouple Degradation
Chapter 7 : Thermocouple Selection and Performance

Appendix A : Hypothetical Thermocouple Problems and Solutions
Appendix B : Circuit Analysis for Parallel Thermocouples
Appendix C : Thermocouple Tables (Temperature in °C)
Appendix D : Polynomial Equation Coefficients
Appendix E : Thermowell Selection
Appendix F : Case Studies
Appendix G : Quick Reference Thermocouple Guide
Index