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MM740 Instrumentation and Measurement
Systems
fi credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
0 Assessment: assignment, laborato y and examination
A first year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
Objectives
To give a basic foundation in the principles and practice
involved in instrumentation and measurement svstems used
in the chemical industry.
Content
Principles and role of sensors for the measurement of
displacement, time velocity, force, pressure, flow-rate,
density and temperature. Transducing elements for
conversion among mechanical, thermal and electrical
quantities, includrng examples bf electro-mechanical,
capacitance, piezo-electric, resistance, inductance, and
thermo-electric transducers.
Analysis of the static and dynamic performance of electromechanical
transducers, input-output characteristics of
transducers; compatibility of transducers, amplifiers,
measuring circuits and recorders in measuring systems.
Applications of digital measurement techniques, digital type
transducers, digital to analogue and analogue to digital
conversions, data transfer and communications between
microcomputers.
Recommended reading
Bell, D.A., Electronic Instrumentation and Measurements. Reston,
VA, Reston Pub. Co., 1983
Del Toro, V., Electrical Engineering Fundamentals. 2nd edn,
Engelwood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1986
Doebelin, E.O., Measurement Systems Application and Design. 4th
edn, Tokyo, McGraw-Hill, 1990
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MM741 Control Engineering ,'-'e sa
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignment and examination
A first year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
Objectives
To introduce classical methods of analysis for linear control
systems.
Content
Introduction to closed-loop control definitions, terminology
and examples. Mathematical modelling of physical systems
transfer functions, linearisation, block diagrams of closedloo^
svstems. Transient analvsis the inverse transform and
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the time solution of linear models, response of first and
second order systems to a subject impulse and subject step
inputs. Stability analysis Routh's stability criterion for linear
control systems. Frequency response analysis steady state
solution to sinusoidal inputs and the frequency response
function G (jw), representation on logarithmic plots. - Bode
diagrams, nyquist stability criterion.
Recommended reading
Dransfield, P., Systems and Control, Part I and 2. Clayton, Vic.,
Monash University, 1994
Ogata, K., M o h Control Engineering. 2nd edn, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall International, 1990
Palm, W.J., Modeling Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems.
New York, Wiley, 1983
Palm, W.J., Control Systems Enginea'ng. New York, Wiley, 1986
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MM755 Equipment Life Cycle ',"
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: project
A first year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
0 biectives
To introduce students to engineering aspect of equipment
life cycle; from conception through definition, realisation,
integration, commi~si'onin~, life usage and ultimate
decommissioning/disposal.
Content
Types of equipment; fixed and mobile: equipment
acquisition and procurement cycle; design research and
development; equipment trialling, testing and
demonstration.
Maintenance strategy types and approaches, preventive
maintenance, . . . condition monitoring. Integration and
commisslonlng process.
Maintenance operations maintenance planning and control,
work planning, resource analysis and allocation,
maintenance activities, repair and performance and
condition monitoring. Maintenance access and creation of
maintenance windows. Measures of maintenance
effectiveness.
Configuration configuration control and modification.
Decommissioning, disposal and system replacement.
Recommended reading
Byrt, W.J. and Masters, P.R., The Australian Manuger. 2nd edn,
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1982
Corder, A.S., Maintenance Management Techniques. London,
McGraw-Hill, 1976
Cunningham, C.E. and Cox, W., Applied Maintainability
Engineering. New York, Wiley Interscience, 1972
Dhillon, B.S. and Reiche, H., Reliability and Maintainability
Management. New York, Von Nostrand Rheinhold, 1985
Kelly, A,, Maintenance Planning and Control. London,
Butterworths, 1984
Moss, M.A., Designing for Minimal Maintenance Expense: The
Practical Application of Reliability and Maintainability. New
York, M. Dekker, 1985
MM756 Chemical Engineering Design 3
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination
A first year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
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Management f? 5~
Obiedives
To give students a basic understanding of the principles
involved in the design of batch and continuous reactors, and
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