INDUSTRIAL INSTRUMENTATION AND COMPUTER CONTROL
Group A
Ultrasonic devices and their applications for sensing and non-destructive testing.
Radio isotopes and their applications. Radio isotope sources, nucleonic detectors, ionization chambers, proportional-Geiger Mueller-and. scintillation-counters. Ionization gauges and nucleonic gauges for measurement of thickness, density, pressure, flow, etc.
Optical transducers: LDR, LEDs, lasers, photodiodes, photo multiplier Tubes, IR and UV detectors. Applications to industrial and pollution measurement. Introduction to optical fibre based sensors.
Microwave sensors: Doppler shift technique for velocity measurement.
Sampling techniques for liquids and gases for analysis purposes. Gas analysis, gas chromatography, thermal conductivity method, heat of reaction method. Paramagnetic oxygen meters.
Group B
Humidity and moisture measurement, measurement of viscosity, pH measurement, electrical conductivity measurement.
Spectrochemical analysis: Mass spectrometry, emission spectrometry, absorption spectrometry.
Different types of digital control. Single loop and multiloop, direct digital control, software implementation of multiloop controllers. Sequence control: Programmable logic controllers, relay ladder logic programming.
Supervisory control: Functionality, process optimization, process monitoring. Man-machine interfaces. On-line computer control of processes.
Recommended Books
1. D Patranabis.Principlesof IndustrialInstrumentation.Tata
McGraw-HiliPublishingCo. Ltd., New Delhi.
2. E B Jones. Instrument Technology-Vol n. Analysis
Instruments.ButterworthsScientificPublication,London.
3. J G Bollinger and N A Duffil. Computer Control of
Machinesand Processes.Addison-WesleyPublishingCo.,
New York.
4. J W Webb. Programmable Controllers: Principles and
Applications.Merril PublishingCo., Columbus,USA.