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EE4T2 Electrical Measurements & Instrumentation

This document provides an overview of the Electrical Measurements & Instrumentation course taken in the second semester of a B.Tech program. The course introduces students to basic analog and digital measuring instruments for electrical quantities like current, voltage, power, and energy. Students will learn about instrument transformers, measurement of power and energy in single and three phase systems, and special meters. Additional topics covered include resistance, inductance, and capacitance measurements using various bridges, transducers, and digital instruments. The course aims to make students proficient in various electrical measuring techniques.

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EE4T2 Electrical Measurements & Instrumentation

This document provides an overview of the Electrical Measurements & Instrumentation course taken in the second semester of a B.Tech program. The course introduces students to basic analog and digital measuring instruments for electrical quantities like current, voltage, power, and energy. Students will learn about instrument transformers, measurement of power and energy in single and three phase systems, and special meters. Additional topics covered include resistance, inductance, and capacitance measurements using various bridges, transducers, and digital instruments. The course aims to make students proficient in various electrical measuring techniques.

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2/4 B.Tech.

SECOND SEMESTER

EE4T2 ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION


Credits: 4

Lecture: 4 periods/week Internal assessment: 30 marks


Tutorial: 1 period /week Semester end examination: 70 marks-
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Objective:
This course introduces principle of operation of basic analog and digital measuring
instruments for measurement of current, voltage, power, energy etc. Measurement of
resistance, inductance and capacitance by using bridge circuits will be discussed in deta il. It
is expected that student will be thorough with various measuring techniques that are required
for an electrical engineer.

Learning outcomes :
1. The students will be familiar with various measuring instruments used to detect
electrical quantities .
2. Able to design and test instrument transformers for various electrical applications
3. Understand and use measuring transducer for the most common physical quantities.
UNIT-I Measuring Instruments:
Classification – deflecting, control and damping torques – Ammeters and Voltmeters –
PMMC, moving iron type instruments – expression for the deflecting torque and control
torque – Errors and compensations. Extension of range using shunts and series resista nce.

UNIT –II Instrume nt transformers:


Current Transformers – Theory, Ratio error and phase angle errors, Reduction of errors,
construction of C.T, effect of Secondary open circuit, permanent magnetization and
demagnetization of cores, testing of Current Transformers.
Potential Transformers - Theory, Ratio error and phase angle errors, Reduction of errors,
Construction of P.T, testing of Potential Transformers.

UNIT –III Measure ment of Powe r and Energy :


Single phase and three phase dynamometer wattmeter, LPF and UPF, expression for
deflecting and control torques – Extension of range of wattmeter using instrument
transformers – Measurement of active and reactive powers in balanced and unbalanced
systems. Single phase induction type energy meter – driving and braking torques – errors and
compensations –testing by phantom loading using R.S.S. meter. Three phase energy meter –
trivector meter, maximum demand meters.

UNIT – IV Special Meters and Potentiometers:


Type of P.F meters – Single phase Electrodynamometer Power Factor meter, three phase
Electrodynamometer Power Factor meter, and Moving Iron Power Factor meters.
Type of Frequency meters – Mechanical Resonance type Frequency meter, Electrical
Resonance type Frequency meter, Weston type Frequency meter, Ratiometer type Frequency
meter, Saturable core Frequency meter.
Synchroscopes – Electrodynamometer type Synchroscopes, Moving Iron Synchroscopes.
Phase sequence Indicators.
Principle and operation of D.C. Crompton’s potentiometer – standardization – Measurement
of unknown resistance, current, voltage. A.C. Potentiometers: polar and coordinate types -
standardization – applications.
UNIT – V Resistance Measure ments:
Method of measuring low, medium and high resistance – sensitivity of Wheatstone’s bridge –
Carey Foster’s bridge- Kelvin’s double bridge for measuring low resistance– loss of charge
method for measurement of high resistance.

UNIT –VI A.C. Bridges:


Measurement of inductance, Quality Factor - Maxwell’s bridge, Hay’s bridge, Anderson’s
bridge, Owen’s bridge. Measurement of capacitance and loss angle - Desauty bridge-Wien’s
bridge – Schering Bridge.

UNIT – VII Transducers:


Principles of transducers, Resistance Thermometers, Thermistors, Thermo couples, Strain
Gauge and Linear Variable Differential Transformers.

UNIT – VIII
Digital Voltmeters-Successive approximation, ramp and integrating type, Digital frequency
meter and Digital tachometer- scheme of phase angle measurement unit (PMU).

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Electrical & Electronic Measurement & Instruments by A.K.Sawhney Dhanpat Rai &
Co. Publications.
2.Electrical Measurements and measuring Instruments – by E.W. Golding and F.C. Widdis,
fifth Edition, Wheeler Publishing
3. Modern Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques – A.D. Helfrick and
W.D. Cooper, PHI, 5th Edition, 2002.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Electrical Measurements – by Buckingham and Price, Prentice – Hall
2. Electrical Measurements by Harris.
3. Electrical Measurements: Fundamentals, Concepts, Applications – by Reissland, M.U,
NewAge International (P) Limited, Publishers.
4. Electrical and Electronic Measurements –by G.K.Banerjee, PHI Learning Private Ltd,
New Delhi-2012

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