- Docente: Cesare Saccani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/17
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0938)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0927)
Learning outcomes
Student acquire knowledge about the criteria and methods for the proper use of tools, measuring equipment and devices for diagnostics, monitoring and automation of industrial mechanical systems.
Course contents
Measure fundamentals
Thermocouples
pressure transducers
flowmeter measurement instrumentation
Functional elements of a measurement system
Pneumatic control
Two position control
Proportional (P) control
Integral (I) control
Derivative (D) control
PID control
Control system set up
Control proceedings and actuators
Control components and selection criteria
Regulating valve
Typologies of regulating valves
Measurement instrumentation
Pilot valves (pneumatic position transducer)
Direct mass flow measurement
Flow meter devices
Diaphragm flow meter
Deltabar
Cerabar
Thermocouples
Flow measurement with needle probe
Humidity measurements
Density measurement (for liquid and gas)
Load cells
Data acquisition
Analog and digital converters
Measurement chain and data acquisition
Instrument control
Control systems
PLC fundamentals
PC Data acquisition
Mechanical plants controlled by two position
Industrial furnace: methane and gas supply line
Compressed air plant
Refrigeration plant
Pneumatic conveying experimental plant
Links to further information
http://www.diem.ing.unibo.it/personale/saccani/
Office hours
See the website of Cesare Saccani