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Measurement of thermo-technical quantities

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-2038/01
Abbreviation MTTV
Course title Measurement of thermo-technical quantities
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Jiří Burda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

• Metrology, international and national metrology institutions, standards, SI units.
• Measurement methods and types of measurement systems. Drawing measuring circuits in project documentation. Elements of the measuring chain.
• Types of sensors according to physical principle.
• Analog adjustment of sensor signal - operational amplifier, filtration, analog integration, derivation.
• Voltage-to-current, A/D and D/A converters, multiplexers.
• Transmission path, basics of electromagnetic compatibility.
• Basic characteristics of analog signals, frequency decomposition, parameters of sampling.
• Evaluation instruments, measuring cards, measuring panels, virtual instruments. Device properties.
• The basics of measured data processing. Determination of uncertainty of direct and indirect measurements.
• Contact methods of temperature measurement, thermocouples, cold junction temperature compensation, resistance thermometers, thermistors.
• Non-contact temperature measurements, total radiation pyrometers, narrow band pyrometers, ratio pyrometers. Calibration of pyrometers. Thermographic cameras.
• Measurement of pressure, sensors types and principles.
• Volume and mass flow rate measurement, flow velocity meters, volumetric meters, Pitot tube, orifice plate, nozzles, mechanical anemometers and thermoanemometers, modern sensors.
• Analysis of gas composition, chemical, infrared, magnetic, electrochemical principles. Humidity measurement, hygrometer types. Determination of solid emissions, measurement methodology.

Literature

[1] WEBSTER, J. G. The measurement, instrumentation, and sensors: Handbook. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1999. ISBN 0849383471.
[2] VASEGHI, S. V. Advanced digital signal processing and noise reduction. 3rd ed. Chichester: Wiley, 2006. ISBN 0-470-09494-X.
[3] SIENIUTYCZ, S., JEŻOWSKI, J. Energy Optimization in Process Systems. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009. ISBN 978-0-08-045141-1 .
[4] TALER, J., DUDA, P. Solving Direct and Inverse Heat Conduction Problems. Berlin: Springer, 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-33470-5 .

Advised literature

[1] TAN, L. Digital signal processing: fundamentals and applications. Burlington: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-12-374090-8.
[2] https://www.omega.com/.
[3] LIENHARD IV, J. H., LIENHARD V, J. H. A Heat Transfer Textbook. 4th ed. Cambridge: Phlogiston Press, 2012.