- Docente: Augusto Bianchini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/17
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0949)
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from Feb 17, 2025 to Jun 04, 2025
Learning outcomes
Student acquires knowledge about the criteria and methods for the proper use of tools, measuring equipment and devices for diagnostics, monitoring and automation of industrial mechanical systems.
Course contents
Measure fundamentals
Temperature, pressure and flowmeter measurement instrumentation
Functional elements of a measurement system
Pneumatic control
Two position control
Proportional (P) control
Integral (I) control
Derivative (D) control
PID control
Control system set up
Control proceedings and actuators
Control components and selection criteria
Regulating valve
Typologies of regulating valves
Measurement instrumentation
Pilot valves (pneumatic position transducer)
Flow meter transducer (mass and volume)
Pressure transducers (absolute, relative and differential)
Temperature transducers: thermocouples, thermoresistances and thermistors
Flow measurement with needle probe
Humidity measurements
Density measurement (for liquid and gas)
Load cells
Data acquisition
Analog and digital converters
Measurement chain and data acquisition
Instrument control
Control systems
PLC fundamentals
PC Data acquisition
Mechanical plants controlled by two position
Industrial furnace: methane and gas supply line
Compressed air plant
Refrigeration plant
Pneumatic conveying facility plant
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture notes on my personal website.
Teaching methods
Lectures in classroom. Practical exercises in classroom, in laboratory and at industrial companies.
Assessment methods
The final exam consists of a written and oral assessment aiming at assessing the learning of the design methodology of mechanical industrial plants learned during the course with particular attention to the regulation and control systems. The final test also evaluates the ability to define the main characteristics of control systems and instrumentation used in industrial plant engineering and the ability to apply the concepts with the definition of P&ID and electromechanical panels of industrial plants.
Teaching tools
Slides and table devices shown in class.
Office hours
See the website of Augusto Bianchini
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.