Measuring and control technique

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Course objectives

Acquisition of knowledge in working with measuring instruments to control the process and the acquisition of knowledge in the theory of process control.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After passing the exam the student is expected to know:
- basic principles of measuring instruments
- choose a quality instrument is required to measure the physical quantities essential for process control
- spot the sources of error in measuring
- principles of automatic process control
- elements of the control loop and their assignment

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

1st week: Description and view the contents of the lecture. The principles of the measurement. General characteristics of the measuring instruments.
2nd week: Pressure Measurement. Division of pressure instruments. Liquid manometers.
3rd week: Manometers with solid weights. Deformation manometers. Vakuummeters.
4th week: Temperature measurement. Dilatation thermometers. Thermocouples.
5th week: Heat resistant thermometers. Radiation pyrometers.
6th week: Flow measurement. Dynamic flowmeters. Surface flowmeters.
7th week: Turbine flowmeters. Flowmeters based on fluid properties.
8th week: Ionization flowmeters. The ultrasonic flowmeters. Fluid velocity sensors.
9th week: Level measurement of liquids and solids.
Examination I
10th week: Introduction to process control. Basic concepts and procedures.
11th Week: Types of process control. Examples process control.
12th week: The outline view of the control loop. Property of the control loop.
13th week: Synthesis and analysis of the control loop.
14th week: Regulators.
15th week: Control valves. Other components in the control loop.
Examination II
Exercises:
1. Static characteristics of the measuring instrument.
2. Dynamic characteristics of the measuring instrument.
3. Simulation of kinetics.
4. Laplace transforms.
5. Systems of first order.
6. Determination of transfer functions.
7. Analysis of system with no controller and with P and PI controller.
8. Analysis of the chemical reactions kinetics.

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Student responsibilities

Attendance at lectures in the amount of 80% of the hourly rate.
Attendance of the exercises in the amount of 100% of the hourly rate.