It is written as a text book but should be equally useful to practicing engineers both as a comprehensive reference and as a text for self-study. This book provides guidance in the area of the do's and don't of instrument technology. Isolation of power supplies is one of the important topics discussed. Other chapters include transducers, transducer connections, plant environment, instrument environment and plant, signal conditioning, amplifier considerations, instrument requirements, digital control, testing and calibration of instruments, and future projections. The treatment is descriptive with many excellent illustrations, using mathematics to the minimum.
Every engineer faces the problem of shielding and grounding.
This book provides the background and approach to solve most of these problems. Topics include electrostatics, capacitance and energy storage, applying electrostatics to practical processes, practical shielding of instruments, the differential amplifier, general application problems, shielding in resistance-bridge systems, magnetic processes in instrumentation, RF processes in instrumentation, and the earth plane. The treatment is descriptive with many excellent illustrations, using mathematics to the minimum. Introduction to Solid State Power Electronics , Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Semiconductor Division, Youngwood, PA 15697, 1977. Jr. The IEEE Power Electronics Society's William E. Newell Award for outstanding achievement in power electronics is named after Dr. Newell.