"Fundamentals of Industrial Instrumentation and Process Control" offers detailed information on analog and digital electrical components, actuators, pneumatics and regulators. It also provides information on alternating current electricity, pressure, levels, flow, density, pH, humidity, signal transmission, signal conditioning and sensors. The book explains how these components are applied to specific industrial processes.
Each chapter provides logically organized textual information. It also provides illustrations, photographs and examples to aid in the learning process. The book contains a range of case studies that invite students to apply their theoretical understanding of concepts to real world problems in need of solutions. It offers measurements using both imperial and metric units. The book often provides diagrams that take readers inside instruments, showing them the details of important instrument sensors and electronics.
William Dunn graduated with honors from the University of London with a Bachelor of Science in physics. He went on to obtain a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. He has accumulated more than 40 years' experience in management, customer interfacing, marketing, and product development relating to microelectronic and micromachined sensors. He has also taught courses in industrial instrumentation and digital logic at Ouachita Technical College. He owns more than 15 patents in sensor design and has written technical papers on the subject.
"Fundamentals of Industrial Instrumentation and Process Control" was published by McGraw-Hill Professional. There is only one edition of this book, which was published on March 31, 2005. The book is 322 pages in length and has a shipping weight of 762 grams. It is available in university and college book stores as well as online. As of July 2011, this hardcover book may be purchased for approximately $50.