Subject Measuring and Control Engineering is introduction to the fields of process measurement and control. Students will acquaint with basic principles feedback process control, logical control and computer control of technological processes. Students obtain basic information about equipment in the field of process control instrumentation. Principles and properties characteristics of selected pressure, temperature, flow, level and chemical sensors are described and their applications are introduced.

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• Nachtigalová I.: Control Engineering [on-line]. Available on Internet: http://uprt.vscht.cz/ucebnice/mce/

• Anderson N.A: Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control, (3rd edition). CRC Press 1998

• Romagnoli J. A., Palazoglu A.: Introduction to Process Control. CRC Press 2006.

• Liptak B.: Process Measurement and Analysis. CRC Press 2003. http://www.scribd.com/doc/28840732/Instrument-Engineers-Handbook-Fourth-Edition-Volume-One-Process-Measurement-and-Analysis

Department of Physics and Measurements provide the education in the branch Measuring Technique and Department of Computing and Control Engineering provide the education in the branch Control Engineering.

During in the lectures in English language are used PowerPoint presentations and student obtain written materials with text of lectures for their annotations and study.

Obligatory part of the subject is subject Laboratory measurement and control technique.

Written test has two parts: Measurement and Control. Lectures materials are without fail sufficient for study for the test.

1. Basic terms of measurement and control. Measurement and control loops in technological charts.

2. Analysis of technological systems. Basic methods of mathematical modelling of technological processes based on the mass and energy balance.

3. Simulation of processes described by systems of ordinary differential equations using simulation languages.

4. Description of dynamic behaviour of systems. Classification of dynamic systems. Basic principles of PID control, simple feedback control loops.

5. Practical methods of controller design. Multiple-loop control. Basic applications of control loops in chemical technology.

6. Basic principles of digital signal processing. Digital and adaptive controllers.

7. Logical control of technological processes, programmable logic controllers (PLC).

8. Instrumentation for process measurement. Sensors, measuring transmitters and transducers, smart sensors. Virtual instrumentation.

9. Pressure measurement. Bourdon and bellows-type sensor, capacitive-, piezoelectric- and strain-gage pressure transducers.

10. Temperature measurement. Thermocouples, RTD, thermistors, radiation thermometers.

11. Level measurement. Mechanical and electrical level detectors.

12. Flow measurement. Orifice plates; volumetric-, turbine-, electromagnetic-, ultrasonic- flowmeters. Mass-flow measurement.

13. Measurement of the chemical properties and composition.

14. Computer control and information industrial systems - structures, main principles of function, design.

Mathematics, Physics, (Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry)