Instrumentation in Industries:

Introduction, Use of instruments in Industry, A brief idea (block diagram) of the industrial applications of
instruments in some process industries like Food, Pulp and paper, Automotive Petroleum products
industries, Instrument selection for the application.
Elements of Instruments:
Functional description of instrumentation system. Role of transducer, amplifiers, filters and display devices,
Basic characteristics of OP-AMP, D.C. amplifier, Instrumentation amplifiers, signal conditioning, different
types of filters and their characteristics. Different types of data display and recording system. Data loggers,
magnetic tape recorders.
Transducers and Instrumentations:
Active and passive transducers for measurement of displacement, force, pressure, etc., Working principle of
tachometer, Electromagnetic flow meter, magnetostrictive transducers, Working of feedback transducers like
inverse transducers, temperature balance system, Feedback accelerometer, fiber optic sensors, electro-optical
sensors in process industries
Analytical Industrial Instrumentation:
Measurement of pressure, measurement of flow, measurement of temperature, measurement of viscosity,
liquid level, humidity and vibration by using electrical or mechanical transducer, gas chromatography.
Industrial instrumentation with radio isotopes:
Nuclear radiation transducer, radioactive vacuum, thickness and level gauges, non destructive testing
equipments-introduction, neutron radiography, signature analysis as NDT tool. Ultrasonic and ultrasonic
Holography.
Data acquisition and telemetry:
Digital data acquisition system, Telemetry- Definition, classification, Frequency telemetry, Multiplexing and
modulation in Telemetry. Remote control, general description, typical scheme of an industrial remote control
system.
Microprocessor Based Instrumentation:
Motivation, basic structure, programming methods, Application example Annunciator, stepper, motor
control, Microprocessor based DAS. Control centre requisite, computer control system. power plant
instrumentation schemes main parameters-simple analysis.