Temperature measurement & control
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Temperature measurement & control
(IEE control engineering series, 33)
Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, c1988
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The temperature on earth varies over a wide range whereas man can only work comfortably in a quite narrow temperature range that has to be artificially maintained. In addition, many industries have extensive requirements for temperature control. Thus control engineers are called upon very frequently to design temperature control loops.
A general knowledge of control engineering is of course useful in designing temperature control loops.However, temperature control has some special features:
(i) asymmetries caused by the usually differing mechanisms of heating and cooling
(ii) complex nonlinear heat-transfer effects
(iii) highly application-dependent measurement problems.
The intention of this book is to treat the theory and practice of temperature measurement and control, and important related topics such as energy management and air pollution, at a level suitable for engineering and science undergraduate and postgraduate students, and in a manner designed to make the book valuable to practising engineers. There are no specific prerequisites for the book although a knowledge of elementary control theory could be useful.
The philosophy of the book is a compromise between fundamentals and practical guidelines. It is the author's firm belief that it is highly desirable to obtain a good insight into theoretical fundamentals (deeper than can be justified on grounds of immediate utility) before embarking on practical applications. The aim has been to produce a practically oriented text within a firm theoretical outline.
The first half of the book is an application oriented survey of temperature measurement techniques and devices. The second half is concerned mainly with temperature control in both simple and complex situations. There are chapters on heat sources, commercially available controllers, temperature control in buildings and energy conservation. The book ends with an appendix that rapidly surveys the underpinning thermodynamic theory.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Definitions of temperature and heat
Chapter 2: Brief review of simple indicating thermometers for low-cost temperature measurement in the -30 DegreesC to +400 DegreesC range
Chapter 3: Thermocouples
Chapter 4: Resistance thermometers and thermistors
Chapter 5: Radiation thermometry
Chapter 6: New developments in temperature sensors
Chapter 7: Commonly arising industrial temperature-measurement problems
Chapter 8: Heat sources
Chapter 9: Heat sources: Non-combustion aspects
Chapter 10: Temperature control - 1: On-off control
Chapter 11: Temperature control - 2: Criteria and techniques for design of controllers for use with continuously variable actuators
Chapter 12: Temperature control - 3: Control of spatial temperature distribution
Chapter 13: Temperature control - 4: Some illustrative applications
Chapter 14: Commercially available temperature controllers
Chapter 15: Temperature control in buildings
Chapter 16: Energy conservation
Appendix: A review of some basic definitions and some thermodynamic fundamentals
by "Nielsen BookData"