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Preface &
Acknowledgments
While updating and expanding this 2nd edition of the ISA Handbook of
Measurement Equations and Tables, I zealously followed a single, eightword doctrine that has guided me during more than 35 years writing and
editing high-tech publications. That doctrine is:
Knowledge consists of knowing where to find it.
Realizing no human brain can store all knowledge especially from
multiple technical disciplines required to control a wide range of
industrial manufacturing processes that credo served me well when I
was editor of ISAs InTech magazine during the 1990s.
Numerous equations and tables from the first edition edited by William
H. Cubberly and published by ISA in 1994 were determined to still be
useful today and, therefore, remain in this 2nd edition. However,
chapters in the 1994 handbook have been significantly updated and
three brand new chapter topics have been added: Industrial
Communications Buses, Safety, and Environmental Measurement. Also,
thanks to graphics and layout editor Vanessa French, this edition is
much easier to read no magnifying glass is needed to read
superscripts and subscripts, for example.
This ISA Handbook of Measurement Equations and Tables, 2nd Edition,
has eleven primary sections:
Units of Measurement (including conversion tables frequently used
for several other sections, below)
Pressure Measurement
Flow Measurement
Temperature Measurement
Level Measurement
Industrial Communications Buses
Safety
Environmental Measurement
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Humidity Measurement
Electrical Measurement
Viscosity Measurement
In keeping with our knowledge consists of knowing where to find it
doctrine, I would particularly like to thank Dr. Allan H. Harvey of the
National Institute of Standards and Technologys Physical and Chemical
Properties Division for producing customized Steam Tables for Chapter
3, Pressure Measurement. Thanks go to David A. Glanzer and the
Fieldbus Foundation for providing the foundations Standard Unit
Codes Table seen in Chapter 7, Industrial Communications Buses, and
to InTech magazine editors Greg Hale and Nick Sheble for the Industrial
Networking Technologies comparison table in the same chapter. Thanks
also to Ametek Drexelbrook for important content seen in Chapter 6,
Level Measurement.
For Chapter 8, Safety, FM Approvals, an FM Global Technologies LLC
enterprise, contributed to the sections covering hazardous classes and
zones. In the same chapter, thanks go to ISA safety standards veteran Vic
Maggioli for advising us what to include regarding Safety
Instrumentation Functions (SIF)/Safety Integrity Level (SIL) verification.
Several of ISAs distinguished ISA Fellows and other ISA volunteer
leaders contributed advice, counsel, and some content. The editor
would particularly like to thank Cullen Langford, Nicholas P. Sands,
Vernon Trevathan, Dick Caro, Michael Ruel, Bruce Land, Robert Zielske,
David Spitzer, David Braudaway, Fred Meier, and Warren Weidman.
Several ISA and ANSI/ISA standards served as information sources, and
the editor thanks Lois Ferson, ISA Manager Standards and Technical
Publications, and Linda Wolffe, ISAs librarian, for helping identify them.
Last, but not least, considerable credit is due to the late editor of this
handbooks 1994 first edition, William H. Bill Cubberly, whose work
was used as the starting point.

Jim Strothman, Editor