Course Overview
In this course, students will investigate flow measurement: displacement flow meters, flow switches, rotameters, turbines, pitot tubes, orifice plates and flow nozzles, connecting piping, pipe and tube fittings, sensing line fabrication, flumes and weirs, inferential flow calculations, magnetic flow meters and others. Flow instruments reviewed are pneumatic transmitters, electronic transmitters, smart flow transmitters (digital).
Prerequisite(s)
- Successful completion of term 1 courses
Credits
6.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
Safety
- Demonstrate safe working practices in the lab.
Flow Measurement
- Describe Bernoulli's Theorem as it applies to head flow measurement.
- Identify different types of positive displacement meters.
- Describe flow switch contacts, such as mercury and micro switches.
- Describe rotameters, head flow metering primary elements, such as pitot tubes, orifice plates, flow nozzles, venturis, wedge, elbow meters, flumes and weirs.
- Describe the correct installation of primary elements, impulse piping and flow transmitters.
- Calculate orifice bores and differentials for various inferential flowmeters.
- Calibrate square root extractors.
- Calibrate integrators.
- Apply mass flowmeters.
- Describe electromagnetic, shedding vortex, variable reluctance and RF turbines flowmeters.
- Calibrate electromagnetic, shedding vortex, variable reluctance and RF turbines (Hz/I converter) flowmeters.
Flow Instruments
- Describe various types of transmitters, such as pneumatic, electronic and smart.
- Calibrate various types of transmitters, such as pneumatic, electronic and smart.
Effective as of Winter 2017
Related Programs
Flow Instruments and Measurements (INST 2116) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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- Indicates programs eligible for students to apply for Post-graduation Work Permit (PGWP).
School of Energy
- Industrial Instrumentation and Process Control Technician
Diploma Full-time
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