Jesse’s Mass Flow Measurement book now available

We are excited to announce that Dr.  Jesse Yoder’s latest book, Mass Flow Measurement, is now available on Amazon in hardcopy and Kindle. Published June 26 by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, this book talks about mass flow in concept and as it pertains to Coriolis flowmeters, thermal flowmeters, mass flow controllers, and multivariable flowmeters.

Jesse has written extensively over the years about mass flow, volumetric flow, and mass flowmeters. Yet the book gave him the impetus to dig deeper. As he says: “I find mass to be both an intuitive and an elusive concept. Mass seems obvious, and yet it is not. In writing this book, I really wanted to understand what mass is, and it led me down the proverbial rabbit hole to the depths of subatomic particles.”

The book is a labor of love, a reason to write about philosophical and technical questions Jesse had thought about for decades. In addition to understanding mass more deeply, Jesse explores the problem with Euclidian geometry, an alternative inertial mass theory for how Coriolis meters work, the limitations of using π to measure the area of a pipe, “finite point” geometry, and where Zeno (of Zeno’s paradox) goes wrong.

Mass Flow Measurement also includes photos from many of our flowmeter manufacturing friends, as well as an interview with Dr. John Olin, founder of Sierra Instruments. The book is designed for professionals involved with flowmeters and instrumentation, including product and marketing managers, strategic planners, application engineers, and distributors.

Jesse has written four other books. His first book, Shades of Experience, published in 2001, is a book on philosophy, experience and language.  His second book, The Tao of Measurement, A Philosophical View of Flow and Sensors, with Richard E. Morley as co-contributor, was published in January of 2015 by the International Society of Automation (ISA).  Topics covered include temperature, pressure, flow, time, length, and area.

In 2023, CRC Press published Jesse’s two-book set on Advances in Flowmeter Technology. The first volume, New-Technology Flowmeters, and the second volume Conventional Flowmeters, share the history, operating principles, growth factors, representative companies, and frontiers of research for all 10 major types of flowmeters.