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Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Measuring of Thermal Engineering Quantities

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-0907/01
Abbreviation MTTV
Course title Measuring of Thermal Engineering Quantities
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Ing. René Pyszko

Subject syllabus

Direct and indirect measurement methods. Theory of errors in measurement. Temperature measurement. Contact sensors - thermocouples, resistance, dilatation sensors. Non-contact temperature measurement - pyrometers - subjective (luminance and color), objective. Pyrometers - total, monochromatic, bandpass. Two color pyrometer. Effect of emissivity. Thermal imaging cameras. Measurement of fluid pressure. Liquid pressure gauges, strain gauge and piezoelectric. Velocity and flow rate. Aperture, nozzle, pitot tube, Venturi tube rotameters. Flowmeters turbine, speed, induction, vortex, ultrasonic, mass, anemometers, correlation. Laser Doppler systems LDA, LDV, PIV. Volumetric flow rate meter. Hygrometers: expansion, resistive, capacitive, psychometry, dewpoint, condensation method. Analysis of the chemical composition of the gases. Analyzers: thermal conductivity, thermochemical, photometric. Fundamentals of signals. Signal amplitude, root mean square value (RMS), peak-peak, variance, correlation function, histogram. Sampling. Shannon-Kotelnikov theorem, aliasing. Fourier series, Fourier transform, discrete Fourier transform, spectral power density. A/D converters. Data aquisition systems. Filtration time series. Integration and derivation of time series. Archiving of data. Database systems.

E-learning

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Literature

[1] KARSA, B.: Electrical measuring instruments and measurements. Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó, 1967 - 827 s.

[2] BUCHLA, D.: Applied electronic instrumentation and measurement. Wayne McLachlan. New York: Merrill, 1992 - xviii, 830 s.

[3] WEBSTER, J., G.: The measurement, instrumentation, and sensors handbook. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8493-8347-1.

[4] CARR, J., J.: Elements of electronic instrumentation and measurement. - 3rd ed. - Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996, 594 s. ISBN 0-13-341686-0

Advised literature

[1] BAIRD, D. C. Experimentation: An Introduction to Measurement Theory and Experiment Design (Prentice-Hall, 1962).

[2] TAYLOR, J. R. An Introduction to Error Analysis (University Science Books, 1982).

[3] OPPENHEIM, A. V., SCHAFER, R., W.: Discrete-time signal processing. Englewood Cliffs : Prentice Hall, 1989 - xv, 879 s. ISBN 0-13-216771-9

[4] VASEGHI, S., V.: Advanced digital signal processing and noise reduction. 3rd ed. - Chichester : Wiley, 2006 - xxvi, 453 s. ISBN 0-470-09494-X