Field device integration

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Micro Total Analysis Systems (pTAS) are chip-based micro-channel systems that serve for complete analytics. The word Total refers to the monolithic system character of the devices, integrating a multitude of miniature functional elements with minimal dead volumes. The main fields of application are related to biology, pharmacology, and analytical chemistry. Detailed applications of pTAS systems are given in Section 1.9.8. Recently, pTAS developments have strongly influenced the performance of organic syntheses by micro flow (see, e.g., [29]). By this, an overlap with the micro-reactor world was made, which probably will increase more and more. 

A. Sudbo and P.I. Jensen, Stable bidirectional eigenmode propagation of optical fields in waveguide devices, Integrated Photonics Research, 27-29 (OSA, Monterey, 1995). 

The description of the different types of protection in Chapter 6 indicates that there are two very different ways to solve this problem - if an electrical transmission is required at all. One way is to use intrinsically safe circuits, the other one applies industrial equipment as usual, additionally explosion protected by an enclosure as appropriate, e.g. flameproof housings for smallsized devices. In the history of process instrumentation, the appearance of semiconductors and integrated circuits has drastically reduced the power consumption of field devices. So, intrinsically safe circuits dominate this field today. 

Solid-state electrochemistry is an important and rapidly developing scientific field that integrates many aspects of classical electrochemical science and engineering, materials science, solid-state chemistry and physics, heterogeneous catalysis, and other areas of physical chemistry. This field comprises - but is not limited to - the electrochemistry of solid materials, the thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical reactions involving at least one solid phase, and also the transport of ions and electrons in solids and interactions between solid, liquid and/or gaseous phases, whenever these processes are essentially determined by the properties of solids and are relevant to the electrochemical reactions. The range of applications includes many types of batteries and fuel cells, a variety of sensors and analytical appliances, electrochemical pumps and compressors, ceramic membranes with ionic or mixed ionic-electronic conductivity, solid-state electrolyzers and electrocatalytic reactors, the synthesis of new materials with improved properties and corrosion protection, supercapacitors, and electrochromic and memory devices. 

The discussions in this paper provide fundamental and overview material suitable for the new researcher in the field of integrated circuit processing, as well as provides the user of ion implantation with some relevant design information and some recent applications to some new devices and materials. 

On the other side, the textile industry takes a considerable leap in the field of the strong added-value textiles, mainly in the high-performance textile and fibre sectors. The use of new materials, development of new structures, as well as the development of new integration processes make it possible to develop supports able to convey information, while being based most of the time on properties of electric conduction. These new achievements of the textile industry enable direct electronic device integration into the textile structure, therefore modifying the functionality of the apparel. Besides the main apparel functions, which are protection and passive communication, the clothes become a second skin or the interface with specific functions between the individual and his environment. 

The standard also includes fault tolerant tables to show what configurations of logic solvers and field devices are suitable for different integrity levels. See Table IX/5.0.3-1. 

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