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Exercises proposed for teaching in (July – December, 2016 Semester)
1. Name of the Teacher: Dr. Abhik Banerjee
2. Department: Electrical Engineering
3. Course Title: Electrical & Electronics Measurement System
4. Course code/ Program: EE 303 (B.Tech)
5. Course Hands out (in reference to framed & approved syllabus) (maximum 500 words)
Lectures / Topics / Topics to be coverUNIT –I
2 hours / Review of Electromechanical ammeter, voltmeter, wattmeter, ohmmeter, multimeter and energy meter. / Introduction to electromechanical principle, resolution, sensitivity, accuracy & precision, PMMC, moving iron and moving coils instruments
1 hours / --do-- / Construction of ammeter and voltmeter. Shunt and multiplier, constructions of wattmeter, energy meter.
3 hours / Measurement of insulation resistance- use of guard wires and guard rings, Insulation Megger. / Introduction, difficulties in measurements of high resistance, use of guard circuit, methods of measurement, direct deflection method, loss of charge method. Megaohm bridge methods, measurement of insulation resistance. Megger and its construction.
3 hours / Measuring with C.T and P.T.; ratio and phase angle errors, testing / Introduction to instrument transformers, CT & PT, phase angle errors, ratio, turn compensations, burdens, causes of errors.
1 hour / Unit test –I/ assignment -I
UNIT –II
3 hours / Measurement of R, L and C with bridges and potentiometer / Introduction, Basic equation derivation of balance equation. Measurement of resistance, measurement of inductance, Maxwell’s bridges, Anderson bridges, Hay bridge, Owen bridge,
2 hours / --do-- / Measurement of capacitance, Schering bridge. Measurement of frequency, Wien’s bridge and its advantages.
1 hour / Kelvin’s double bridge DC potentiometer, AC potentiometer- polar type and rectangular type. / Introduction, Kelvin’s bridge, its disadvantages and Kelvins’s double bridge,
2 hours / --do-- / Introduction to potentiometers, DC and AC, measurement of DC voltage using DC potentiometer, AC polar and rectangular potentiometers.
1 hour / Unit test –II/ assignment –II
UNIT –III
2 hours / Analog electronic instruments: Ampere, Volt, Watt, kWh, Time / Introduction to analog electronic instruments, Ammeter, electronic voltmeters, wattmeter, energy meter, VTVMs, TVMs
3 hour / frequency and phase angle measurement using CRO, / Introduction to CRO, construction of CRT, electron gun assembly, deflections plates, applications, measurement of phase angle, frequency using CRO, Lissajous patterns
3 hours / Spectrum and wave analyzer, multimeter. PLL and its applications. Multiplexers. / Introduction to spectrum analyzers, Basic Spectrum analyzer, special display, Spectra of different signals. PLL, multiplexers and its applications
1 hour / Unit test –III/assignment -III
UNIT –IV
1 hour / Instrumentation: Transducer, / Introduction of transducers, types of transducers such as analog-digital, active – passive, primary-secondary, electrical-mechanical, their advantages-disadvantages, constructions.
3 hours / classification and selection of strain gauge, LVDT, Capacitive, piezoelectric, Hall Effect, / Classification of strain gauges, their constructions, types, LVDT, its construction, applications, working principles, Capacitive transducers, its construction and working principles, applications. Principle of piezoelectric effect transducers, piezoelectric crystals. Principles of Hall effect, and its application.
1hour / Digital transducers -Motion encoders (absolute and incremental). / Introduction to digital transducers its advantages and applications, motion encoders, shaft encoders, absolute and incremental
3 hours / Signal conditioning for transducers. Measurement of temperature, weight, pressure and flow. / Instrumentation amplifiers, AC-DC amplifiers, inverters, adder, subtractors, multiplier and dividers, A/D conversion technique , D/A conversions, filters, measurement of temperature, electrical resonance thermometers, platinum thermometer, semi-conductor thermometers, radiation temperature measurement, optical Pyrometers measurement of weight, pressure, and flow, turbine meters, types of flow meters,
1 hours / Basic principle of Smart sensors, principle of data acquisition systems (DAS). / Introduction to smart sensors, Data Acquisition System (DAS), introduction, Instrumentation system, components of digital DAS, sample and hold circuit, configuration of DAS, single and multi-channel DAS, Application of DAS.
Total number of lectures hours = 37 hours
Total number of unit test/assignment = 3 hour
Total number of practical classes = 24 hours
6. Books/Literature to be followed:
(a) Books (Min. 2 texts + 3 references)
(i) Title A course in Electrical and Electronic Measurements
Author Swahney, A.K
Publisher Dhanpat Rai
Edition 19th
(ii) Title Electronic Instrumentation
Author Kalsi
Publisher Tata McGraw Hill (TMH)
Edition 3rd
(iii) Title Instrumentation measurement & analysis
Author B. C. Nakra
Publisher Tata McGraw Hill (TMH)
Edition 3rd
(iv) Title Measurement system
Author Doebelin
Publisher Tata McGraw Hill (TMH)
Edition 3rd
(v) Title Electrical and Electronic Measurements
Author R. K. Rajput
Publisher S. Chand
Edition 2nd
(b) Magazines/Journals (Minimum 5)
(i) Electrical Business Magazine, (Online edition of Electrical Industry Magazine)
(ii) Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, IEEE..
(iii) Science, Measurement and Technology, IET Journal.
(iv) Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions.
(v) Measurements, Elsevier Journal.
7. Mode of Teaching: J.C Bose/S. N. Bose (please tick). S. N. Bose model
8. If the course is of practices, list the experiments to be offered
1. Using Kelvin’s Bridge for measurement of low resistance.
2. Measurement of insulation resistance.
3. Measurement of capacitance and loss angle of capacitor using Schering Bridge.
4. Measurement of inductance and Q-factor using Owen Bridge.
5. Measurement of ratio and phase angle errors of instrument transformers using
(a) Comparison method (b) absolute method
6. Using (a) integrating type (b) dual-slope type electronic voltmeter
7. Spectrum analyser and its use for analysing frequency spectra of periodic and non-periodic signals
8. Using LVDT or displacement transducers.
9. Resistance strain gauges using unbalanced bridge circuits.
10. Measurement of temperature using Pt-100, thermocouple and thermistor.
11. Using absolute (grey-coded) and incremental rotary encoders.
12. Performing time division and frequency division multiplexing.
13. Phase locked loops and applications for phase measurements.
Are the manuals ready for the experiments to be conducted? Yes
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