Instrumentation and Metrology

Physics

Theoretical lectures using slides and videos. Practical classes with resolution of exercises and laboratory experiments.

At the end of this course unit the student should be able to: properly use knowledge in the area of instrumentation, with a view to selecting and integrating this knowledge in a problem of measuring variables in chemical and microbiological processes and analyzes. Recognize the transmission signal and the factors that can disturb it. Understand the control cycle of variables in industrial processes. Master the basic metrological concepts. Acquire notions of verification and calibration of instruments and equipment.

1. Introduction. Measurement and units. Signal and transmission. Control cycles. 2. Classification of instruments. PI&D symbology. 3. Sensors and transducers (Pressure, Temperature, Flow and Level). Biosensors. Nanosensors. 4. Basic notions of metrology and representation of experimental data 5. Calibration of instruments.

The students must make a work and a oral presentation using the power point (20% of the final classification). The presentation will be made in the last week of classes and all students must attend all the defenses. This component as a unique evaluation and there is not allowed to repete.

Another component is individual evaluated in the exams periods (80% of the final grade).

The final classification results from the addition of the grade of the work with the grade obtained in the exam converted to a scale of 0 to 20.

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