Industrial Instrumentation
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Industrial Instrumentation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Instrumentation (subject code 2170913) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 9 units, covering 62 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2170913)Unit 1 Transducers
- Introduction to instrumentation system
- static and dynamic characteristics of an instrumentation system
- Principles and classification of transducers
- Electrical transducers
- basic requirements of transducers
Unit 2 Strain Gauge and Strain Measurement
- Factors affecting strain measurements
- Types of strain gauges
- theory of operation of resistive strain gauge
- gauge factor
- types of electrical strain gauges
- strain gauge materials
- gauging techniques and other factors
- strain gauge circuits and temperature compensation
- applications of strain gauges
Unit 3 Displacement Measurement
- Resistive potentiometer (Linear
- circular and helical)
- R.V.D.T. and their characteristics
- variable inductance and capacitance transducers
- Piezo electrical transducers-output equations and equivalent circuit
- Hall effect devices and Proximity sensors
- Large displacement measurement using synchros and resolvers
- Shaft encoders
Unit 4 Forces and Torque Measurement
- Load cells and their applications
- various methods for torque measurement
- Use of torque wrenches
Unit 5 Pressure Measurement
- Mechanical devices like Diaphragm
- Bellows, and Bourdon tube for pressure measurement
- Variable inductance and capacitance transducers
- Piezo electric transducers
- L.V.D.T. for measurement of pressure
- Low pressure and vacuum pressure measurement using Pirani gauge
- McLeod gauge
- Ionization gauge
- Pressure gauge calibration
Unit 6 Flow Measurement
- Differential pressure meter like Orifice plate
- Venturi tube
- flow nozzle
- Pitot tube
- Turbine flow meter
- Electro magnetic flow meter
- hot wire anemometer
- Ultrasonic flow meter
Unit 7 Level Measurement
- inductive and capacitive techniques for level measurement
- Ultrasonic and radiation methods
- Air purge system (Bubbler method)
Unit 8 Temperature Measurement
- Resistance type temperature sensors – RTD & Thermister
- Thermocouples & Thermopiles
- Laws of thermocouple – Fabrication of industrial thermocouples – Signal conditioning of thermocouples output - Radiation methods of temperature measurement – Radiation fundamentals – Total radiation & selective radiation pyrometers – Optical pyrometer – Two colour radiation pyrometers
Unit 9 Digital Data Acquisition systems & control
- Use of signal conditioners
- signal converters
- display devices
- A/D & D/A circuits in digital data acquisition
- Instrumentation systems
- Types of Instrumentation systems
- Components of an analog Instrumentation Data – Acquisition system
- Multiplexing systems
- Uses of Data Acquisition systems
- Use of Recorders in Digital systems
- Digital Recording systems
- Modern Digital Data Acquisition system
- Analog Multiplexed operation
- operation of sample Hold circuits
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