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Download Your In-Depth eBook Guide to Calibration for the Process Industries
The informative isa eBook, Calibration Essentials, covers everything you need to know about today’s industrial and instrumentation calibration processes. -
How Next-Generation Gas Chromatography Improves Quality and Reduces Costs
Glass manufacturing is energy intensive. The majority of energy consumed in the process is from natural gas combustion used to heat furnaces to melt raw materials, which then turn into glass. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Liquid Flow Condition Where Falling Static Pressure Causes Formation of Vapor Bubbles?
The first stage of cavitation is the formation of vapor bubbles within the liquid system because of the fluid's static pressure falling below the fluid vapor pressure -
Are You Getting the Most out of Your ISA Membership?
ISA membership costs just $120 per year and gives you access to dozens of benefits. But even more than these line items, it gives you a way to belong to the profession that you’ve chosen for your life -
The Impact of Theft, Accidents, and Natural Losses From Pipelines
Modern leak detection equipment can prevent pipeline theft. -
![Tuning Strategies and the Fragility of Fractional-Order PID Controllers [Technical]](/documents/d/acom/tuning-strategies-and-the-fragility-of-fractional-order-pid-controllers.jpg)
Tuning Strategies and the Fragility of Fractional-Order PID Controllers [Technical]
A properly designed control system must provide an effective trade-off between performance and robustness. One of the main reasons to investigate the fragility of fractional-orde PID controllers is to -
AutoQuiz: What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of RTDs?
Resistance temperature detectors require a temperature transmitter to function. This is not a disadvantage of an RTD, since its function does not require a temperature transmitter to be installed. -
How to Tune PID Controllers on Self-Regulating Processes
Self-regulating responses are very common in the process industry. Many flows, liquid pressures, temperatures, and composition processes are self-regulating. This post offers a method for tuning PID c -
Powering the Next Generation of HART-Enabled Devices
The development of the HART-IP and WirelessHART communications protocols have created a growing need for battery-powered solutions that can operate without maintenance for decades and provide reliable -
AutoQuiz: How to Interpret Relay Logic for a Pump Control Switch
When a pump control switch is in auto, the storage tank low level switch or the pressure tank high level switch can stop the pump. -
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Low Cost Test Rig for a Standalone Wind Energy Conversion System [technical]
Wavelet decomposition enables differentiation between faulty & healthy conditions for effective diagnostic procedure for wind turbine condition monitoring. -
How to Optimize Application Engineering to Keep Projects on Time and on Budget
Customization of products that deviate from vendor and industry standards leads to a number of problems on projects. Engineering and as-built documentation costs can increase because of the deviation -
AutoQuiz: How to Diagnose Industrial Pressure Sensor Errors
If a pressure sensor/transmitter is giving a non-linear response, replacement of the sensor and/or the transmitter will be required. -
IIoT Applications Deliver a Competitive Advantage to Process Industries
The IIoT essentially involves acquiring data from hundreds—if not thousands—of process and equipment sensors, and transmitting the data to central locations via wireless or hardwired networks. Once ac -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Mission Critical Operations
Mission-critical specialists are in-demand in a variety of critical infrastructure areas, focused on events that could result in serious consequences, such as loss of life, harm to the environment or -
AutoQuiz: Motor Shaft Speed Relationship to Frequency and Number of Poles
The shaft speed of a motor is directly proportional to the frequency and is inversely proportional to the number of poles. -
ISA Will Grow and Succeed by Meeting the Needs of Both Members and Customers
ISA provides members with opportunities to gain knowledge, skills, leadership development, and friendship. There are also opportunities to give back, through collaboration, mentorship, volunteerism, s -
Webinar Recording: Road to Digitalization Leads Through Cybersecurity
Digitalization, IIoT and the smart factory will usher greater operational intelligence, more efficient production, and safer work environments.Smart sensors, ubiquitous connectivity, and remote access -
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Nonlinear Predictive Control of a Boiler-Turbine Unit [Technical]
A boiler-turbine unit in coal-fired power plants is used to convert fuel chemical energy into mechanical energy & then into electrical energy. -
AutoQuiz: How to Measure Tank Differential Pressure
A tank level is measured using a differential pressure transmitter (DPT-1) and a bubbler tube. The tank is vented to atmosphere.
![Tuning Strategies and the Fragility of Fractional-Order PID Controllers [Technical]](/o/adaptive-media/image/7916204/small-576/Tuning-Strategies-and-the-Fragility-of-Fractional-Order-PID-Controllers.jpg?t=1772467668404)
![Low Cost Test Rig for a Standalone Wind Energy Conversion System [technical]](/o/adaptive-media/image/7920465/small-576/Low-Cost-Test-Rig-for-a-Standalone-Wind-Energy-Conversion-System.jpg?t=1772468512807)
![Nonlinear Predictive Control of a Boiler-Turbine Unit [Technical]](/o/adaptive-media/image/7907521/small-576/Nonlinear-Predictive-Control-of-a-Boiler-Turbine-Unit.jpg?t=1772466328567)
