Sensors & Transducers: (Code: EI 401)
Sensors & Transducers: (Code: EI 401)
[Code: EI 401]
Contacts : 3L+1T
Credits : 4
Contact Hours: 40
Srijan Bhattacharya
Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
RCC Institute of Information Technology
Module I
Module II
Capacitive sensors: Variable distance- parallel plate type, Variable area- parallel plate, serrated
plate/teeth type and cylindrical type,
Variable dielectric constant type: calculation of sensitivities; proximity measurement
Stretched Diaphragm type: microphones, response characteristics.
Piezoelectric elements: piezoelectric effects, charge and voltage coefficients, crystal model,
materials, natural and synthetic types – their comparison, force and stress sensing, piezoelectric
accelerometer
Tachometers – Stroboscopes, Encoders, seismic accelerometer, Measurement of vibration 8
Module III
Industrial weighing systems :
i) Link–lever mechanism, Load cells – pneumatic,
ii) piezoelectric,
iii) elastic and magneto-elastic types - their mounting, pressductor, different designs of weighing
systems, conveyors type, weigh feeder type.
Thermal sensors:
Resistance change type: RTD - materials, construction, types, working principle
Thermister - materials, construction, types, working principle
Thermo emf sensors: Thermocouple - types, working principle Thermopile - types, working principle
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Module IV
Magnetic sensors:
- Sensors based on Villari effect for assessment of force, torque, rpm meters, proximity
measurement
- Hall effect and Hall drive, performance characteristics
- Geiger counters, Scintillation detectors
- Introduction to Smart sensors 8
Reference Books
1. D Patranabis, Sensors and Transducers, PHI, 2nd ed.
2. E. A. Doebelin, Measurement Systems: Application and
Design Mc Graw Hill, New York
3. H. K. P. Neubert, Instrument Transducers, Oxford University
Press, London and Calcutta
4. D V S Murty, Transducers & Instrumentation
5. A K Sawhney, A course in Electrical and Electronic
Measurements and Instrumentation
6. Arun K Ghosh, Introduction to Measurements and
Instrumentation / Introduction to Transducers