Control Valve Primer, Fourth Edition
Includes insights on valve sizing, smart (digital) valve positioners, field-based architecture, network system technology, and control loop performance evaluation. Hans Baumann, a holder of more than 150 patents, and author of over a hundred publications in control valve technology, shares his expertise on designing control loops and selecting final control elements. The easy-to-read text provides shortcuts through complex sizing and noise calculation formulas including for liquids and cavitation, and gives practical advice on how to apply control valves for safety, reduced energy costs, loop stability, and easy maintenance. - See more at: https://www.isa.org/store/products/product-detail/?productId=116240#sthash.et1aSrm9.dpuf
Hans D. Baumann
Hans D. Baumann received an industrial engineering education in his native Germany and studied under U.S. Government sponsorship at Western Reserve University and later at Northeastern University, culminating in a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia Pacific University. In addition, he is registered as a Professional Engineer in four states. During his professional career, he personally designed or directed the development of over 28 valve lines. One of them, the famous “CAMFLEX” valve and its derivations, is produced in eight countries where over three million units have been sold. He is credited with over 150 U.S. and worldwide patents and has published 115 papers and articles in addition to co-authoring seven handbooks on valves, instrumentation, and acoustic. He also was named by InTech magazine one of fifty most important innovators and wrote the acclaimed business book The Ideal Enterprise. Prior to founding his own control valve manufacturing company in 1977, he was an International Consultant, Corporate Vice-President of Masoneilan-Inter-national, Inc., and Manager of R&D at Worthington S/A in France. After selling his company to Emerson Electric, he worked for Fisher Controls as Senior Vice President. Usually ahead of his time, his “critical flow factor” and “pipe reducer correction factors” (FL& Fp) for valve sizing, introduced in the early sixties, later became part of ISA sizing standards in 1972, and his proposal in 1970 to utilize modified jet noise theories for aerodynamic valve noise prediction, became the basis for the ISA-75.17-1989 and IEC standard 60534-8-3. He served as a director of the ISA Standards & Practices Department Board, Chairman of the ISA75.11 Committee, U.S. Technical Expert for IEC Committee SC/65B/WG9, was a Member of the ASME Bioprocessing Equipment Executive Committee, and Chairman of the Equipment Subcommittee on Seals, and was the former Standards Chairman for Control Valves for the Fluid Controls Institute. As a well received guest speaker in the U.S. and abroad, he has also been invited as a guest Professor to Kobe University in Japan and to the Korean Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea. As a Life Fellow Member of ISA and ASME, he has been honored for his “many contributions to the science and technology of control valves” with the “Chet Beard” and the “UOP Technology” awards; he was named Honorary Mem-ber of the Spanish Chemical Engineering Society, and Honorary Life Member of the Fluid Controls Institute. His many valve designs have been honored with a gold medal from Germany, prizes from France and Japan, and seven U.S. “Vaaler” awards. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.
