High-tech instrumentation and state-of-the-art modeling tools are helping power plant operators achieve best-in-class performance, meet pollution targets, and better predict failures. Calibration ...

Author Patrick Bouwman explains how his book, Fundamentals of Process Control: Principles and Concepts, helps up-and-coming automation professionals build a solid foundation. What inspired you to ...

The power generation industry is constantly evolving, with advanced technologies becoming more ubiquitous in power plants. Along with this evolution, instrumentation and control equipment continues to ...

Used to measure, display, record and control process variables such as pressure, temperature, flow, level, load, speed, distance or angle, process instruments can be as simple as direct reading ...

Five case studies show how diagnostic data used with multivariable process data increases process efficiency and uptime. Instrumentation selection for plant applications is a multistep process, ...

With the addition of Electro-Tech Systems, Q Source expands its ability to meet critical ESD testing and environmental control needs. Known for reliability and precision, Electro-Tech Systems ...

Large industrial plants–such as those in the oil, gas, electricity, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries–rely on electronic instrumentation to provide accurate, stable measurements to ...

A nuclear power plant (NPP) contains thousands of components and equipment, such as motors, pumps or valves that have to be operated in a well-coordinated way. This coordination is performed by ...

The Technical Working Group on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control (TWG-NPPIC) is a group of experts from IAEA Member States, nominated by their Governments and appointed by the IAEA ...