TLDR; is a series of books that will help you advance in your professional careers and, in this case, deal with insomnia.
Automation of Water Resource Recovery Facilities is another Water Environmental Foundation manual. If you are in the automation or water/wastewater space and you do not have this book, you are making a mistake. This should be in your truck until you read every last page. At that point, you can put it on a shelf and save it for when you cannot sleep.
The chapters are gold. Every chapter in this book, without exception, is gold.
Introduction: this has a subsection titled "Technology as a strategy, not a limitation," which I would like as a bumper sticker
The Business Case for Automation: aka how to argue for money and time with management
Complete Automation Design: this details every step in the automation process
Process and Instrumentation Design: everything I write about documentation and more
Process Control Narratives: Perfect summary
Specifications
Process Control Strategies
General Instrument Characteristic
Sensors
Final Control Elements
Communications and Connectivity
Physical and Cyber Security
Human-Machine Interfaces
Process Controllers
Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Control System Training
It is not written by researchers; it is written by teams with decades in the field. This book is gold. If you want to progress in this field, this will help you go from zero to hero. It gives you the perspectives of many different areas that are crucial to what we do.
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