IIT Kharagpur crop production technology syllabus Instrumentation and Control in Food Industry
Instrumentation & Control in Food Industry
3 – 1 – 0 : 4 Credits Prerequsites: None
Introduction: Review of Laplace Transforms; Zero, first and second order
responses of instruments.
Motion and Displacement Measurement: Strain gages, differential
transformers, piezolelectric transducers, nozzle flappers.
Pressure Measurement: Manometer dynamics, Bourdon tubes, pressure
trtansducers, force balance transducers.
Vacuum Measurement: McLeod gage, Knudsen gage, thermal conductivity
gage, Pirani gage, ionization gage.
Force and Torque Measurement: Drawbar dynamometers, octagonal ring
transducers, torque transducers.
Flow Measurement: Pitot static tube, hot wire anemometer, orifice meter,
rotameter, turbine flowmeter.
Temperature Measurement: Bimetallic thermometers, pressure
thermometers, thermocouples, thermopiles, resistance thermometers,
thermistors, radiation thermometers. Liquid Level Measurement: Humidity Measurement; Concept of Biosensors