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Instrument Engineers' Handbook, Volume 1, Fourth Edition: Process Measurement and Analysis Reviews

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Summary: A must have for anyone in Industry
Comment: I had borrowed the same book, except the 3rd edition as a reference to bring to my Professional Engineers exam and liked it so much that I had to get the most recent version.
This book not only yields the why and how. It also goes into the cost of certain process instruments (least to most expensive). On top of that it outlines general physical placement, and in what applications the transmitters are best suited.
This is just a great all around book to have in your office, which will enable you to make more educated decisions about your given process applications.

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Summary: An outstanding work!
Comment: This volume of Bela Liptak's "Instrument Engineers' Handbook" series is a phenomenal piece of work. Written to help newly-minted engineers come up to speed with practical applications in industry, it is a masterpiece of technical content and outstanding readability. What impresses me the most about this work is how Liptak's editorial hand has wrought a text accessible to a wide range of readers yet uncompromising in its technical scope.

As an instructor of Instrumentation at a two-year technical college, I have had my students use this book -- both the third and fourth editions -- as their primary source material for their study on measurement technologies. The fact that my students (who are not being trained as engineers, but technicians) find this book of significant value to their learning is a testament to its writing quality.

If I had anything negative to say about this book, it is that writing style betrays its collective authorship. This book is a compilation of chapters written by different authors, with Bela Liptak as the editor-in-chief. As such, style and presentation varies a bit from chapter to chapter. This should not discourage anyone from buying the book, though. It is a must-have for any professional in the field of industrial instrumentation and automation.

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Summary: The Very Best Reference - From an Industrial Practitioner of Process Measurement & Control
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The book cover almost every single instrument used in the process industry for Process measurement and Analysis of the most common process variables. The book covers Flow, Level, Temperature, Pressure, Density, Safety and Miscellaneous Sensors (Vibration, Shock, acceleration, torque, noise, etc.)

One of the aspect that I find more appealing is that at the beginning of each chapter you find an application and selection oriented overview and an orientation table for the process variable covered in that chapter of the book. The tables list all the different types of sensors and summarize the features and capabilities, as well as approximated prices, accuracies and characteristics of each one. If you need a sensor for a particular application, you can narrow your options and then go to the sections of the book that covers in details the selected sensors.

If you work with Industrial Instrumentation you will find this book to be a very valuable tool in your day to day job, either if you specify, install, maintain or operate them.

This handbook has almost 2000 pages of really useful information.

I have been working in the Process Industries for more than 16 years as an Automation, Instrumentation, Process Safety and Process Control Engineer. I consider this book to be the very best in the field, and it is really an Excellent reference for anyone and everyone working in these areas or in areas related with their Industrial applications.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Instrument Engineers Handbook Vol1
Comment: Excellent book. I second Mr. Hills comments, although I have recently purchased the books based upon comments Mr.Liptak has made in the control mailing list. It is a very good investment. The book is easy to read/understand, covers the full spectrum of instrumentation,give relative costs and companies manufacturing the items. It is a good first book to turn to, and will save me much research time. I wish I would have known about it earlier.

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Summary: Excellent book for the advanced field technician.
Comment: I have used this book for years and it has never failed to provide the information necessary to troubleshoot and repair problems with measurement systems. Liptak does a wonderful job presenting measurement theory and the principles of operation of various measurement strategies. The most helpful information Liptak includes is the discussion of the limitation of various measurement devices. If you are responsible for the maintenance of a wide variety of instruments and you desire to know how those instruments work, this book is worth every penny.

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