Looking for a book that covers all the pases in an Instrumentation & Control Project

[soyxan]

Hello,

I am looking for a book/guide/good practices that covers all the phases in an Instrumentation & Control Project. From the basic engineering, specification, design, documentation, comissioning, FAT/SAT, etc... The book should present the interrelation between phases, workflows, roles, documentation generated, etc...

Would you suggest any?

Thanks in advance!

[Chanthien]

Hi Soyxan,

I think you need to read some book: Handbook of Instrument Engineer (03 Vol) and Lesson in industrial instrumentation. Beside, you have to participate to the job relate with I&C to understand them.

If your company have budget for training, i encourage you to get the course of instrumentation and control.

[carl_e]

Volume II of Applied Instrumentation in the Process Industries covers some those areas.

Volume II, Practical Guidelines, warrants a list of chapters:
1. Instrument Project Control
2. Engineering Design Criteria
3. Selecting Measurment Methods
4. Control Valve Selection
5. Control Valve Sizing
6. Pressure Relief Systems
7. Application Guidelines for Analytical Systems
8. Control Panels
9. Instrument Air Systems
10. Slurry Service Applications
11. Accuracies and Errors
12. Construction and Startup
13. Digital and Computer Systems

Volume 1, A Survey has little bit on control and the rest is instrumentation, including pressure relief.

Volume III is Engineering Data and Resource Material, which has essentially been superceded by the internet (a 500 page collection of graphs, tables and equations).

Since the first edition was mid 1970's and the 2nd edition in the early 1980's any computer stuff is not applicable, the graphic panels are from yesteryear, and instrument technologies have leaped a generation or two in the 3 decades since. All books are directly oriented towards oil/gas.

But I don't know what other book offers a summary of "construction and startup" and "project control".

I find most of the 3 volume Instrument Engineers Handbook by Liptak exclusively technology oriented.