INS 231 - Instrumentation II at New River Community College
Course Description
Effective: 2015-05-01
Continues INS 230. Covers common techniques for measuring the dynamic response of processes. Topics include transmitters and telemetering along with process control systems.
Lecture 2-3 hours. Laboratory 3-4 hours. Total 5-7 hours per week.
3-4 credits
General Course Purpose
Instrumentation II is a course of study that continues to instill in the student a knowledge and understanding of the industrial instrumentation field, with special emphasis on accident prevention and industrial safety procedures in the shop and plant.
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate industrial safety practices and procedures in plant and shop.
- Distinguish the general behavior of materials as well as weight, mass, viscosity, specific gravity, and other relevant properties.
- Integrate principles of force and energy and heat transfer principles.
- Operate various pressure measuring devices.
- Use various electrical and mechanical transducers to measure pressure.
- Build instrumentation projects using flowmeters, pressure transmitters, and other devices using critical thinking skills.
- Improve existing control systems, calibrate the systems and maintain the systems.
- Interpret complex processes, such as boiler water make-up, brine solutions and tap water.
- Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal responses in interpersonal relations, discussion, and group projects.
- Use listening skills for interpretation of tasks given.
- Determine the nature and extent of the information needed so that control can be accomplished.
- Access needed information effectively and efficiently so that projects van be accomplished in a timely manner.
- Use information effectively, individually or as a member of a group, to accomplish a specific purpose, such as the process control projects.
- Interpret and use mathematical formulas to calculate the tank level and other critical calculations.
- Use graphical, symbolic, and numerical methods to analyze, organize, and interpret data, such as P & IDs.
- Generate an empirically evidenced and logical argument from observations of systems in the lab.
- Distinguish between causal and correlational relationships between processes.
- Recognize methods of inquiry that lead to scientific knowledge for completion of projects.
Major Topics to be Included
- Safety
- Temperature, Flow, Pressure, and Level Control
- Instrumentation Systems Control
- Calibration
- Boiler Systems
- Telemetering Systems
- Digital Monitors
- Recorders