本书是为适应电力系统高等院校的专业英语教学需要，依据热控专业的教学要求编写的。本书以提高读译电力专业英语的能力和水平为主旨。

本书包括33个单元，共六部分。涉及到自动控制原理、计算机的基本知识、热工检测技术、热工自动控制系统、热工保护、顺序控制、可编程控制等热控专业知识。每个单元后列出了专业词汇，并对课文的难点内容进行了注释。

本书包括33个单元，共六部分，内容涉及自动控制原理、计算机的基本知识、热工检测技术、热工自动控制系统、热工保护、顺序控制、可编程控制等热控专业知识。每个单元的学习材料均由编者从教学、科研、现场实践等多个环节提炼而来，简练生动，单元的长度和设置符合教学要求。每个单元后列出了专业词汇，并对课文的难点内容进行了注释。

本书可作为能源动力类相关专业的专业英语教材，也可作为科技人员和现场运行技术人员的培训教材和自学参考书。

前言

Part I Control Principle

Unit One Introduction to Control Systems

Unit TWO Feedback Control

Unit Three Transfer Functions of Linear Systems

Unit Four Impulse Response of Linear Systems and Block Diagram

Unit Five Time—Domain Analysis of Control Systems

Unit Six Root I。OCUS Techniques 

Unit Seven Stabilization and Improvement of Transient ResPonse

Unit Eight Improvement of Static Accuracy

Unit Nine Introduction to Stability of Control Systems

Unit Ten Applications of Automatic Contr01

Part 11 Computer Technique

Unit Eleven Basic Computer ArchitectUre 

Unit Twelve Conversions Between Analogue and Digital Signals

Unit Thirteen Microprocessors in Control Applications

Unit Fourteen Computer—Controlled Systems

PartⅢ Measurement Instrumentation

unit Fifteen Process Instrumentation

Unit Sixteen Temperature Measurement

Unit Seventeen Pressure Measurement

Unit Eighteen Flow Measurement 

Unit Nineteen Digital Transducers

Unit Twenty Control and Instrumentation

Part 1V Thermal Automatic Control Systems

Unit Twenty—one Introduction to Modern Power Plant 

Unit Twenty—two Introduction to Instrumentation and Control in Thermal Power Plant

Unit Twenty—three Boiler and Turbine Controls 

Unit Twenty—four Co—ordinated Control System 

Unit Twenty—five Distributed Control Systems

Unit Twenty—six Process Control Trend

Unit Twenty—seven Control Systems Design

Part V Protection Systems

Unit Twenty-eight Logic Circuits

Unit Twenty—nine Lc-gic Control and Protection Systems

Unit Thirty Sequence Control Systems

Unit Thirty—one Programmable Logic Controller(PLC) 

PartⅥ Fieldbus

Unit Thirty two Introduction to Fieldbusl

Unit Thirty—three Application of Fieldbus

Appendix