This treatment of process analytical technology, by a distinguished array of experts, chronicles over 50 years of process analyzer development—from its origin in the research laboratory at Ludwigshafen in the late 1930s to a dynamic, worldwide technology in the early 1990s.

Offering some theory and a lot of real-world, hands-on experience, this book is designed for field analyzer technicians, newly-graduated engineers-in-training, and knowledgeable manufacturer’s application personnel. Included are:

Drawings of sample systems that work and comments on ones that don’t work
Justifications and organization guidelines on process analyzer systems
Discussions on implementation issues including justification, purchasing, training, and validation
Descriptions of specific analyzer types and the fundamentals of application for a variety of situations