Control System Power and Grounding Better Practice

We recently installed and commissioned a new control system in a remote oil production facility with it's own power system built on permafrost. This book was invaluable in the guidance and clear explanations on how to integrate a new system into a brown field facility. Once constructed the currents and voltages on the ground wires were measured and the new system is much quieter and better behaved than the one it replaced. Highly recommended.

This book covers one of the most important topics to assure that a Control and Safety System can perform at its intended highest availability, reliability and safety level. In the other hand is hard to find books that treat this topic with the practical detail and clarity needed for real world industrial applications, the ones you may face at your job while working either in an engineering, project, operational, or maintenance department in any given Plant or Industry. If you work with PLCs, DCSs, SCADAs, ESDs, SISs, Hybrid Systems, or just single loop controllers or measurement applications, you will find what are considered the best or recommended practices in industry, as well as warnings, cautions, and notes on essential and critical information about Power, Grounding and Shielding issues. Anther thing I liked about this book is that it is profusely illustrated with diagrams and tables that make it even friendlier when looking for advice on specific issues. I am an Industrial Practitioner of Process Measurement & Control who has been working in the Process Industries for more than 16 years as an Automation, Instrumentation, Process Safety and Process Control Engineer. As a result I have been dealing with Control Systems Power, Grounding and Shielding issues in a day-to-day basic. I found this book to be a very useful reference and a refresher, that will be useful for experienced and newcomers engineers and Technicians to gain a better understanding of almost every aspect that has to be consider to ensure that all the Control Systems you are accountable for have been properly installed.

This book provides a no non-sense, easy to apply explanation of how control and automation systems should be installed to ensure reliable service. With more and more control system manufacturer's cutting back on installation documentation, this book is timely in helping fill the documenation gap.