Measurement Technology for Process Automation - Tapa blanda

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Anders Andersson is a metrologist for Gustaf Fagerberg AB, a process control company in Sweden. His everyday work includes design and review of measurement systems with focus on uncertainty, safety, and quality. Andersson is active in the Swedish instrumentation organisation ITF and the International Society of Automation (ISA) as President Elect in the Sweden section. He organises seminars and courses and holds lectures on measurement technology at various events and schools.

After an education in electronics, Andersson started his career at SP Swedish National Testing Institute. His work in the fluid flow group has included research, standardisation, certification, and legal metrology. In 2003, Andersson published a book in measurement technology in Sweden: "Mätteknik för processindustrin." For a period of time Andersson ran his own consultancy company, but since 2012 he has been employed as senior advisor at a private company.

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The book provides a practical and applied way of measuring instruments for flow, pressure, level, and temperature. Such instruments are used to control processes in manufacturing industries for food, beverages, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, oil, water and waste water, power, etc. With higher prices for raw materials and more severe requirements for safety and environmental issues, there is a growing demand to measure with high precision. Learning these methods, working principles, terminology, concepts, and standards, will enable the reader to avoid errors and common faults. The book will help any process industry to reduce the risk of high costs and damage to both people and equipment.