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Foundation Fieldbus

Overview

This section introduces a process example and several concepts used throughout the

manual. It briefly introduces Foundation Fieldbus blocks and some of the essential block

concepts. The process example is a heat exchanger (Figure 174) with two control valves

and three measurement devices. The controls are configured in a cascade arrangement to

illustrate concepts of transfer between modes and states of the various levels of control.

Figure 174 Heat Exchanger