If you are setting up a new control system for a greenfield LNG plant, buy the 9th edition. But if you are troubleshooting a sticky reactor agitator, a drifting DP cell, or a failing solenoid on a legacy unit—the 6th edition will save your shift. It represents the apotheosis of pre-wireless industrial control, and for that, it remains a timeless artifact of the process industries.
That is when you reach for the big red book (or the digital equivalent). We are talking, of course, about the , edited by the legendary Béla Lipták. If you are setting up a new control
The is available in hardcover and as an eBook (via platforms like AccessEngineering). a drifting DP cell