INSTRUMENTATION AND C.

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PROCESS CONTROL (IPC) D. Fidelity
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Q A
D. Fidelity
Which of the following is an undesirable
dynamic characteristic of an instrument? 5
Q
A. Reproducibility The ____ of a vapor pressure thermometer is
B. Dead zone a functioning element.
C. Time lag
A
D. Static error Pointer
A 6
C. Time lag
Q
2 A negative gain margin expressed in decibels
Q means a/an ______ system.
Pick out the one which is a first-order
A
instrument Unstable

A. Mercury in glass thermometer (w/o any 7

covering or air gap) Q
B. Bare metallic thermometer Thermistor has a high temperature coefficient
C. Bare vapor pressure thermometer of resistivity which is used as the sensing
D. All of the above element in resistance thermometer. It is a/an

A A
D. All of the above Solid semiconductor

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Q Q
Load cells are used for the measurement of Flapper nozzle is used in a/an _____

A controller.
Weight
A
4 Pneumatic
Q 9
Which of the following is the dynamic Q
characteristics of an instrument? Working principle of radiation pyrometer is
based on the
A. Reproducibility
B. Sensitivity A
Stefan-Boltzmann Law
 10 The temperature of tempering oil baths
Q maintained at 400 deg C during heat
Which of the following relates the emf treatment of steel is measured by a/an
generated in a single homogeneous wire to _______ thermocouple.
the temperature difference?
A
A. Peltier effect Iron-constantan

B. Thomson effect 15
C. Seebeck effect Q
D. None of these Instrumentation in a plant offers the

A advantage of
B. Thomson effect
A. Greater safety of operation
11 B. Better quality of product
Q C. Greater operation economy
Dilute wine was initially used as a D. All of these
thermometric liquid to develop temperature
A
scale. The first empirical temperature scale D. All of these
developed was the ______ scale.
16
A Q
Fahrenheit
Need not touch the object whose temperature
12 is being measured
Q
A
Which of the following is a desirable
Radiation/infrared pyrometer
characteristic of an instrument?
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A. High drift Q
B. High fidelity
Thermal conductivity measurement
C. High measuring lag
comprises the working principle of a
D. Poor reproducibility
A
A CO2 analyzer
B. High fidelity
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13 Q
Q
Response of a system to a sinusoidal input is
The operation of a rotameter is based on
called _____ response.
A A
Variable flow area
Frequency
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Q
Q 23
The closed loop pole of a stable second order Q
system could be The maximum service temperature for fibre
glass used as thermocouple wire insulation
A
material is _____ deg C.
Both real and negative
A
20 500
Q
Smoke density of the flue gas going out of the
24
Q
chimney is measured by a
Which of the following controllers has the
A least maximum deviation?
Photo electric cell
A. P controller
21 B. P-I controller
Q
C. P-I-D controller
Temperature measuring instruments are
D. P-D controller
standardized mostly with ____ points of pure
substances. A
D. P-D controller
A. Melting
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B. Boiling Q
C. Both a and b Volumetric expansion is the working principle
D. Neither a and b of the ____ thermometers.
A A
C. Both a and b Mercury in glass
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Q Q
Pick out the first-order system from among Which of the following measurements can be
the following made by the measurement of emf?
A. Damped vibrator A. pH value
B. Mercury in glass thermometer kept in B. Degree of hydrolysis
boiling water C. Composition of complex ions
C. Interacting system of two tanks in series D. All of the above
D. Non-interacting system of two tanks in
A
series
D. All of the above
A
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B. Mercury in glass thermometer kept in
Q
boiling water
A magnetic flowmeter is A
Convert the primary signal into a more useful
A. Based on the principle of Faraday’s law
quantity, usually an electric impulse
B. Capable if measuring the flow rate of
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C. Based on the linear rekationship between
Q
the fluid flow rate and the induced voltage Which of the ff thermocouples will give yhe

D. All of the above highest output for the same value of hot and
cold junction temperature?
A
D. All of the above A. Platinum-platinum + rhodium
B. Iron-constantan
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C. Chromel-constantan
Q
D. All will give the same output
Zirconia probe is used for the continuous
measurement of _________ flue gases going A
out of the furnace. C. Chromel-constantan

A 33
Oxygen in Q
29 ______ is undesirable in thermocouples used
Q in industries.
Strain gage pressure transducers are used to A
measure ______ pressures. Non-linear relation of emf to temperature

A. Gage as well as vacuum 34

B. Absolute as well as differential Q
C. Both a and b Select the correct statement from the
D. Neither a and b following

A A. The frequency response of a pure capacity

C. Both a and b
process is unbounded.
30 B. The phase lag of a pure time delay system
Q decreases with increasing frequency.
Compositional analysis of ______ is done C. The amplitude ratio of a pure capacity
using mass spectrometer. process is inversely proportional to
A frequency.
An isotope D. The amplitude ratio of a pure time delay
31 system decreases with increasing frequency.
Q A
The function of a transducer is to
C. The amplitude ratio of a pure capacity 39
process is inversely proportional to frequency Q
Typical specifications for design stipulates the
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gain margin and phase margin to be
Q
respectively
Continuous shell temperature measurement
in a liquid-liquid heat exchanger is done by a A
> 1.7 and >30°
A
Thermocouple

35
Q
The ____ of a vapor pressures thermometer
is a secondary element.

A
Bourbon tube

36
Q
Emf develiped by a thermocouple while
meaduring a temperature of 600 deg C is
about 5.5 mV. The type of thermocouple used
is

A
Platinum-platinum+rhodium

37
Q
Relates the absorption and evolution of heat
at the junctions of a thermocouple to the
current flow in the circuit

A
Peltier effect

38
Q
In a shell and tube heat exchanger, the flow
rate of heating/cooling fluid is the _______
variable.

A
Manipulated