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Upsetting experiences

<EM>Control Talk </EM>columnists Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner explain why the differential pressure measurement was straight and proffer a new Puzzler: Why did the drum-level control cause more trips?
Post Date: 10/21/2004
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Banging and rapping

<EM>Control Talk </EM>columnists McMillan and Weiner maintain there are better ways for bangers and rappers to take readings other than hitting large case instruments with channel-locks.
Post Date: 10/21/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.1

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter One: A Historical Perspective.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.3

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter Three: IR Thermometers and Pyrometers.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.4

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter Four: Infrared Thermocouples.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.5

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter Five: Fiber Optic Extensions.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.6

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter Six: Linescanning and Thermography.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.8

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter Eight: Products and Applications.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.7

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter Seven: IR Thermometer Calibration.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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Transactions in measurement and control -- 1.2

Volume 1: Non-contact Temperature Measurement<SPAN>—</SPAN>Chapter Two: Theoretical Development.
Post Date: 10/16/2004
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A Hot Idea in a Very Cold Place

Quick-Connects Make Life Easier at the "End of the World"
Post Date: 08/08/2004
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Exchange the Exchanger?

Problem Solving Ideas: A Reader's Welded Plate Heat Exchanger has Failed Three Times in Six Years--Should They go to a Shell and Tube?
Post Date: 07/10/2004
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Flare Gas Monitoring at Lower Cost


Post Date: 08/27/2003
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TEDS Excellent Adventure

The IEEE P1451.4 Transducer Electronic Datasheet Standard will fundamentally change sensor production and use
Post Date: 07/14/2003
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Too Close, Too Soon

Moving, shortening temperature scans; Onstream analysis of Purple Passion; and a new puzzler: Blast Those RTDs!
Post Date: 07/11/2003
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DP Transmitter Sees the Light

Rainy days depress a DP transmitter; E-mailing a prospective engineer; and a new puzzler: Hair-trigger temperature loops
Post Date: 06/05/2003
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Buildings, bureaucrats, and brutes

CONTROL columnist Béla Lipták, PE, describes a design project for a pretty efficient building: one that heats itself and does not need to pay energy, even when the outside temperature is near freezing.
Post Date: 01/15/1998
Author: Béla Lipták