Industrial Instrumentation

EE 41001

Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay
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Introduction to Instrumentation, Static and Dynamic characteristics of Instrument.
Displacement : Variable reluctance transducer, Linear Variable Differential Transformer
(LVDT). Capacitance based and Float based method.
Temperature: Thermocouple, Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD), Thermistor,
Radiation Pyrometer.
Flow: Differential Pressure flowmeter, Variable area flowmeter, Turbine flowmeter,
Ultrasonic flowmeter (Both transit time and Doppler Shift), electromagnetic flowmeter
and Mass flow meter
Pressure: Elastic transducers( Bourdon Gauge, Bellow and Diaphragm Gauge). Low
pressure measurement: McLeod and ionization gauge.
Strain: Strain Gauge, Unbalanced Wheatstone bridge, Load cell, Torque Cell.
pH, viscosity
Basics of Data transmission: Synchro and Servo motor. IEEE-488bus, RS 232 and RS 485
interface. Pneumatic and Hydraulic Instrumentation system.

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 Syllabus : Proposed
Introduction, Significance, Scope and Flavour of the course, Policies, References, (2)

Instruments as Systems : Architecture, Static and Dynamic characteristics, Measurement

Errors, Interpreting Instrument Specifications, Calibration and Standards (8)

Principles of transduction: Variable resistance/inductance/capacitance transducers,

Thermoelectric, Piezoelectric, Semiconductor, Optical, Electromagnetic, Electrochemical,
Radioactive, Electro-Acoustic, MEMS (20)

Principles of signal conditioning and processing : AC, DC bridges, Amplification, V-I/F-V

Conversion, Filtering, Shielding, Grounding, Isolation, Pulse Counting, ADC, DSP

Sensing of physical quantitites : Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Strain, Force,

Torque, Pressure, Stress, Torque, Vibration, Temperature, Heat flux, Flow, Pressure, pH :
Sensor material, construction, system configuration, signal conditioning

Application Systems: Health Care (ECG), Aerospace(INS), Industrial Process, Automotive

Optional : Smart Sensing, IoT, Fault Tolerance

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Policies

Multiple Hypothesis based Failure Diagnosis for Range Safety Desham Mitra, Pulak Halder, Shrabani Ghosh,
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