Sensor Selection Guide - Optimizing Manufacturing and Processes

This one-of-its-kind book offers a self-study course addressing all the facets of sensor applications, including a sensors application guide. This guide can be used to direct the reader to a family of sensors best suited to be used in specific sensor applications. Filled with examples of applying various materials technologies, this book also provides a wealth of information from theoretical and practical perspectives. It also includes descriptions of sensors, sensor technologies, sensor manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and much more. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Sensors and Sensing: History and Definitions 3. Sensor Technologies 4. Sensor Manufacturing 5. Smart Sensing: "Adding Value" to the Sensing Circuit 6. Control Partitioning: Should the "Smarts" Be in the Sensor or the System? 7. Sensors + Artificial Intelligence: The "High End" of Sensor Partitioning 8. Sensor Packaging: Pulling it All Together 9. Bus-Based Sensing Systems: Combining Controls, Communication, and Diagnostic Capabilities to Create a "Whole That is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts" 10. Is There Life after Silicon? (a.k.a.: The Future of Sensors) Appendices Index "Regulatory Calculations Handbook" addresses the environmental concerns of individuals by presenting the basic fundamentals of many environmental regulatory topics. Featuring an overview of the history of environmental problems, the current regulatory framework, and problems/solutions of practical problems in the field, this handbook comprehensively brings the potential calculations and information on regulations into one single source reference. It: provides 500 solved problems, which detail how to calculate the amount of pollutant that a facility is letting go into the environment; includes problems and solutions that can stand alone, offering material that develops the reader's understanding of regulatory matters; and combines information that is otherwise spread out and difficult to consolidate quickly "After an overview of the history of environmental regulation and the current regulatory framework, this book gets down to the actual calculations. It provides more than 300 stand-alone examples that show readers how to perform calculations on pollutant emissions; features examples addressing key regulatory issues, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Superfund, Substances Control Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, and Pollution Prevention Act; and consolidates information into one accessible reference."--BOOK JACKET In an independent learning module designed primarily for independent self-study, Chapman offers a conceptual framework within which practicing professionals or beginning students can develop an appreciation of the tools available for creating solutions to sensing problems. Most accounts of sensor application deal either with what needs to be sensed, or with the devices that sense these parameters, but he uses both perspectives. The first edition was published in 1996. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)