Instrumentation Engineering

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Instrumentationa collective term for measuring instruments that are used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities. The term has its origins in the art and science of scientific instrument-making.

Electronics for You bring you some topics on basics of Instrumentation Engineering. Click on the link for blogs on Instrumentation. It focuses mainly on two units

  • Transducers and Sensors
  • Industrial measurements and applications

Some more topics will be covered soon or later. You can also demand as per need.

Notes on Instrumentation Engineering

    1. Sensors and Transducers

        1. Terminology
        2. Difference between Sensors and Transducers

  1. Transducer and Its Classification

        1. Mechanical Transducers
        2. Electrical Transducers
        3. Active Transducers and Passive Transducers
        4. Primary and Secondary Transducers
        5. Analog and Digital Transducers
        6. Transducers and Inverse Transducers
        7. On The Basis of Transduction Principle Used

  1. Selection Criteria of Transducer

        1. Selection Criteria of a Transducer
        2. Basic Requirements of a Transducer

  1. LVDT Linear Variable Differential Transformer

        1. Why it is called LVDT?
        2. Construction of LVDT
        3. Working Principle of LVDT
        4. Working of LVDT
        5. Types of LVDT
        6. Advantages of LVDT
        7. Disadvantages of LVDT
        8. Applications of LVDT

  1. Strain Gauge

        1. What is Strain?
        2. Strain Gauge
        3. Strain Gauge Installation
        4. Measuring Circuit
        5. Advantages of Strain Gauge
        6. Disadvantages of Strain Gauge
        7. Applications of Strain Gauge

  1. Piezoelectric Transducer

        1. Construction
        2. Working Principle
        3. Piezoelectric Actuator
        4. Application of Piezoelectric Materials
        5. Examples of Piezoelectric Materials
        6. Advantages of Piezoelectric Transducers
        7. Disadvantages of Piezoelectric Transducers

  1. Hall Effect Transducer

        1. Working Principle
        2. Working
        3. Advantages of Hall Effect Transducers
        4. Disadvantages of Hall Effect Transducers
        5. Applications of Hall Effect Transducers

  1. Resistance Temperature Detectors or Resistance thermometer

        1. Thermoresistive Effect
        2. Construction of RTD
        3. Working of RTD
        4. Materials Used in RTD

  1. Thermistors

        1. Construction of Thermistor
        2. Some parameters
        3. Thermistor Properties
        4. Advantages of Thermistor
        5. Disadvantages of Thermistors
        6. Applications of Thermistor

  1. Thermocouple

        1. Working Principle of Thermocouple
        2. Joining Two Disimilar Metals
        3. Construction and Working
        4. Errors occurring During the Measurement using Thermocouple
        5. Types of Thermocouple

  1. Photoelectric Transducers

        1. Photoemissive Transducers
        2. Photoconductive Cell
        3. Photovoltaic transducer or Photocell

  1. Light Sensors or Photosensors

        1. Photodiode
        2. Phototransistor
        3. Difference Between Photodiode and Phototransistor
        4. Photo-FET
        5. Photocell

  1. Signal Conditioning

        1. Need of Signal Conditioning
        2. Types of Signal Conditioning

  1. Electrical Telemetry | Telemetry System

        1. Telemetry
        2. Types of Telemetry Systems
        3. Why is Telemetry Required?
        4. Electrical Telemetry System

  1. Measurement of vibration

        1. What is Vibration?
        2. Types of Vibration
        3. Possible Causes of Machine Vibration
        4. Effect of Vibration
        5. Why Measurement of Vibration is Necessary?
        6. How to Measure Vibration?
        7. Vibration Transducer Types

  1. Electrical Telemetric System

        1. Voltage Telemetry System
        2. Current Telemetry System

  2. Thickness measurement

        1. Ultrasonic Thickness Measurement (UTM)
        2. Electro-Magnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT)

  1. Humidity measurement

        1. What is Humidity?
        2. Types of Humidity
        3. Humidity Measurement
        4. Sling Psychrometer

  1. Thermal conductivity

        1. What is Thermal Conductivity?
        2. Steady State Techniques
        3. Transient Methods

  1. Industrial computerized tomography

        1. Computed Tomography
        2. Industrial Computerized Tomography (ICT)
        3. Why Computed Tomography is Necessary in Industry?
        4. Types of Scanners
        5. Analysis and Inspection Techniques
        6. Advantages of ICT
        7. Disadvantages of ICT
        8. Applications of ICT

  1. Smoke and fire detection

        2. Which heat detector is better?
        3. Advantages of Heat Detectors
        4. Drawbacks of Heat Detectors
        5. Where to Install Heat Detectors?
        6. Smoke Detectors
  1. Level measurement
  2. Burglar alarm
  3. Object counter
  4. Sound level meter
  5. Tachometer
  6. VAW meter
  7. Recorder X- Y plotters and its applications
        1. Introduction to Recorders
        2. X-Y Recorder or X-Y Plotter

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