Appendix A - Glossary - Emerson FloBoss S600+ Instruction Manual

Appendix A – Glossary
A
ADC
Address
AGA
AI
Alphanumeric
Analogue
Annubar
ANIN
ANOUT
ANSI
ASCII
AWG
B
Baud
Basetime
Batch control
Baud rate
Revised July-2017
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This is a generalised glossary of terms. Not all the terms may
Note
necessarily correspond to the particular device or software
described in this manual. For that reason, the term "ROC"
identifies all varieties of remote operations controllers and
flow computers (including ROC800-Series, ROC800L,
ROC300-Series, FloBoss
600+, FloBoss 500-Series, FloBoss 407 units, and DL8000
Presets).
Analog to Digital Converter. Used to convert analog inputs (AI) to a format the flow
computer can use. Also known as A/D Converter.
A character or group of characters used to identify a particular item (such as a
particular area of memory or a particular computer on a communication link with many
other computers).
American Gas Association. A professional organisation that oversees the AGA3
(orifice), AGA5 (heating value), AGA7 (turbine), AGA8 (compressibility), AGA9
(Ultrasonic), and AGA11 (Coriolis) gas flow calculation standards. See
http://www.aga.org.
Analogue input, also known as ANIN.
Consisting of only the letters A through Z and the numbers 0 through 9.
A signal with no defined steps, its value being determined by its size.
A primary flow element that operates by sensing an impact pressure and a reference
pressure through multiple sensing ports connected to dual averaging plenums. The
resultant difference is a differential pressure signal. Sensing ports are located on both
the up- and downstream sides of the flow element. The number of ports is proportional
to the pipe diameter.
Analogue input, also know as AI.
Analogue output, also known as AO.
American National Standards Institute. An organization responsible for approving U.S.
standards in many areas, including computers and communications. Standards
approved by this organisation are often called ANSI standards (for example, ANSI C is
the version of the C language approved by ANSI). ANSI is a member of ISO. See
http://www.ansi.org.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Numeric values assigned to
letters, numbers, and other characters to enable exchange of information between
devices (for example, "A" = 65, "B"=66, and so on).
American Wire Gauge, a system of sizing wiring.
An indicator of the rate of serial data transfer (for example, a baud rate of 10 indicates
10 bits per second).
The end of day time when any daily, weekly, or monthly reports print; also known as
"contract hour." S600 supports three basetimes.
A system option used to allow a liquid station within the S600 to control a number of
streams to dispatch a precise amount of product. If batch control is required, it should
be enabled on all relevant streams and on the station settings during the configuration
generation stage.
An indicator of the rate of serial data transfer (for example, a baud rate of 10 indicates
10 bits per second, or approximately 1 character per second).
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