TLDR; Automation of Water Resource Recovery Facilities

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.

1. Introduction: this has a subsection titled "Technology as a strategy, not a limitation," which I would like as a bumper sticker

2. The Business Case for Automation: aka how to argue for money and time with management

3. Complete Automation Design: this details every step in the automation process

4. Process and Instrumentation Design: everything I write about documentation and more

5. Process Control Narratives: Perfect summary

6. Specifications

7. Process Control Strategies

8. General Instrument Characteristic

9. Sensors

10. Final Control Elements

11. Communications and Connectivity

12. Physical and Cyber Security

13. Human-Machine Interfaces

14. Process Controllers

15. Maintenance and Troubleshooting

16. 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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