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  • Question
  • Which of the following is not a second order instrument?


  • Options
  • A. Mercury in glass thermometer with covering.
  • B. Bare mercury in glass thermometer.
  • C. Pressure gauge with one bellow, two tubes and a tank.
  • D. None of these.

  • Correct Answer
  • Bare mercury in glass thermometer. 


  • Process Control and Instrumentation problems


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    • 1. Flow rate of sludge is not measured by a/an

    • Options
    • A. orificemeter
    • B. open weir
    • C. kennison nozzle
    • D. both(b)&(c)
    • Discuss
    • 2. __________ type of element is normally not used in the bimetallic thermometers.

    • Options
    • A. Flat spiral
    • B. Bourdon tube
    • C. Single helix
    • D. Multiple helix
    • Discuss
    • 3. __________ controller has the maximum stabilising time.

    • Options
    • A. P
    • B. PD
    • C. PI
    • D. PID
    • Discuss
    • 4. For a feed back control system to be stable, the

    • Options
    • A. roots of the characteristic equation should be real.
    • B. poles of the closed loop transfer function should lie in the left half of the complex plane.
    • C. Bode plots of the corresponding open loop transfer function should monotoni-cally decrease.
    • D. poles of the closed loop transfer function should lie in the right half of the complex plane.
    • Discuss
    • 5. Suppose that the gain, time constant and dead time of a process with the following transfer function:Gc(s) = 10 exp( - 0.1s)/(0.5s + 1) are known with a possible error of ± 20% of their values. The largest permissible gain Kc of a proportional controller needs to be calculated below taking the values of process gain, time constant and dead time as

    • Options
    • A. 8, 0.6, 0.08
    • B. 12, 0.6, 0.12
    • C. 8, 0.6, 0.12
    • D. 12, 0.4, 0.08
    • Discuss
    • 6. Thermal wells used in temperature measurements should have

    • Options
    • A. very thick walls.
    • B. low emissivity.
    • C. polished surface.
    • D. high transmissivity of radiation.
    • Discuss
    • 7. In a shell and tube heat exchanger, the inlet temperature of heating/cooling fluid is the __________ variable.

    • Options
    • A. load
    • B. manipulated
    • C. controlled
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. Out of the following themocouple wire insulating material, the highest temperature rating is for

    • Options
    • A. teflon
    • B. ceramic fibre
    • C. asbestos
    • D. fibre glass
    • Discuss
    • 9. Which of following error integral is considered as the best criterion in controller settings?

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. Thermistors are used in __________ devices.

    • Options
    • A. voltage measuring
    • B. temperature measuring
    • C. temperature compensating
    • D. both(b)&(c)
    • Discuss


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