Measurements and instrumentation in heat engineering / V.P. Preobrazhensky

Content

Part One
MEASUREMENTS
Chapter One
A general outline
1-1. Definition, Types and Methods of Measurement
1-2. An outline of Measuring Means
1-3. Accuracy and errors of Measurement Defined
1-4. Error analysis in Precision Measurements
etc.

Part Two
INTRODUCTION
2-1. Temperature and temperature scales
2-2. Practical temperature scales

Chapter Three
LIQUID-IN-GLASS AND FILLED-SYSTEM THERMOMETERS
3-1. Liquid- in-Glass Thermometers
3-2. Filled- system Thermometers
3-3 Solid-expansion and Bimetal Thermometers

Chapter Four
THERMOELECTRIC THERMOMETRY
4-1. General
4-2. Basic theory of thermocouples
4-3. Connection of a measuring inatrument in a Thermocouple circuit
etc.

Chapter Five
RESISTANCE THERMOMETERS AND ASSOCIATED INDICATORS
5-1. General
5-2. Resistance winding materials and respective resistance thermometers
5-3. Construction of Platinum and copper Resistance Thermometers
5-4. Semiconductor Resistance Thermometers
etc.

Chapter Six
TECHNIQUES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE BY CONTACT METHODS.
MEASUREMENT ERRORS, THEIR EVALUATION AND REDUCTION
6-1. General
6-2. Errors of Methods in the Measurement of Gas Temperature due to heat transfer by radiation
6-3. Errors of Method due to heat transfer along the probe
6-4. Installation of Temperature- sensing probes in Fluid streams
etc.

Chapter Seven
RADIATION PYROMETRY
7-1. General
7-2. Theory of Radiation pyrometers
7-3. Optical Pyrometers
7-4. Photoelectric Pyrometers
etc.

Part Three
TRANSDUCERS AND REMOTE INDICATION CIRCUITS
Chapter Eight
TRANSDUCERS AND REMOTE INDICATION CIRCUITS
8-1. General
8-2. Variable-resistance transducers and remote indication circuits
8-3. Strain-Gauge transformers
8-4. Differential-Transformer transducers and remote indication circuits
etc.



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