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Sample Question Paper

Course Name : Diploma in Mechanical Engineering Course Code : ME/PG/PT/MI/MH Semester : Fifth for ME/PG/PT Sixth for MI/MH

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Time: 3 Hrs.

Subject Title : Measurement and Control Marks : 100

Instructions: 1. All questions are compulsory. 2. Illustrate your answers with neat sketches wherever necessary 3. Figures to the right indicate full marks 4. Assume suitable data if necessary 5. Preferably, write the answers in sequential order Q.1) A) Solve Any THREE: 12 Marks a) State the functions of instrument & measuring system. b) Define 1) Range 2) Accuracy 3) Reliability 4) Dead zone c) Define open loop control system. State its application. d) How linear displacement is converted into voltage induced in windings? Name the device. Q.1) B) solve Any ONE: 06 Marks a) State classification of errors. How it affects performance of instrument? b) Draw a block diagram of closed loop control system. Describe its working for motor speed control. Q.2) Solve Any FOUR: 16 Marks a) Identify the types of error in the following situations. i) A vernier caliper with main scale zero not matching with the vernier scale zero. ii) The speed of a pulley is reduced when a mechanical hand tachometer is pressed against its shaft with high pressure. iii) A pressure gauge is not connected to its proper gauging point in a flow path. iv) An operator is anticipating the output signal and recording it too soon. b) A measuring system consist of transducer, amplifier and recorder with individual sensitivities as follows: Transducer sensitivity = 0.25 mv/0c Amplifier gain = 2.5 v/m v Recorder sensitivity = 4 mm/ v Calculate the overall sensitivity of the system. c) Differentiate between Close loop and open loop control system. Mention four points.

d) State functions of P+I+D controller. e) State the specifications of LVDT. f) How linear potentiometer is used for measurement of displacement? Q.3) Solve Any FOUR: 16 Marks a) Define: i) Speed of response ii) Fidelity iii) Dynamic error iv) Over- shoot b) Define the term transducer. List four selection criterions for a transducer. c) What is meaning of Pneumatic and Electronic control system. Give example of each. d) How feed back control system is applied for temperature control of boiler. e) State two characteristics of RTD and Thermistor. Also state two functions of each. Q.4) A) Solve Any THREE: 12 Marks a) State different scales of temperature measurement. Also write its conversion formulae. b) Define any four sound characteristics. c) State unit for humidity. Describe the working of hair hygrometer. d) Why Rotameter is called as variable area flow meter? Draw its neat sketch. Q.4) B) Solve any ONE: 06 Marks a) Draw the neat label sketch of working principle Optical Pyrometer. State its list drawback. b) How you can measure the shaft speed without being in mechanical contact with the shaft? Describe any one method with neat label sketch. Q.5) Solve Any FOUR: 16 Marks a) State law of intermediate temperatures and law of intermediate metals. b) With the help of hot wire bridge circuit explain the working of hot wire anemometer in constant current mode and constant temperature mode. c) Enlist direct and indirect liquid level measurement devices. d) Draw a sketch of Slipping clutch tachometer. Also state its working principle. e) How force is measured by pendulum scale? Give the procedure. f) During a test on a prime mover using dynamometer, the spring balance reads 1N when a mass of 490 N is attached to other end of rope. Fly wheel radius is 250 mm and rope diameter is 40 mm. The fly wheel rotates at 100 rpm. Calculate the power in kW. Q.6) Solve Any FOUR: 16 Marks a) What is bimetallic thermometer? How metal at free end deflects as temperature changes in it? b) Draw a neat label sketch of Ultrasonic flow meter. Also write its functions. c) How Sling Psychrometer is applied for humidity measurement? d) Define Strain Rosette. How it is used for strain measurement? e) Define Load cell. State its applications. 2