CONTROL AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING M.ENG/M.SC

First Semester

Course Code Title Credit Hours

Ancillary Courses

PGC 601 Research Methodology and ICT in Engineering 3

ACE 601 Methods of Engineering Design and Systems Analysis 3

ACE 603 Masters Seminar 3

Compulsory Core Courses

ACE 651 Advanced Principles of Control Systems 3

ACE 653 Instrumentation and Control for Power Plants 3

ACE 611 Introduction to Renewable and New Energy Technologies 3

ACE 641 Power Semiconductor Devices 3

Elective Core Courses (Candidates to Choose One)

ACE 655 Piping and Instrumentation Diagram P&ID 3

ACE 625 Power System Analysis I 3

Sub-Total 24

Second Semester

Ancillary Courses

ACE 602 Industrial Internship 1

ACE 692 Masters Project 6

Compulsory Core Courses

ACE 652 Logic Control Circuits in Power Engineering 3

ACE 654 Smart and Wireless Instrumentation 3

ACE 656 Instrumentation System Design 3

ACE 658 Discrete Time Control System 3

Elective Core Courses (Candidates to Choose One)

ACE 676 Power Grid Technology and Subsystem Design 3

ACE 646 Applications of Industrial Electronics in Power and Energy Systems 3

Sub-Total 22

Grand Total 46

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS FOR

Instrumentation and Control in Power Plants

ACE 653 – Instrumentation and Control in Power Plants

Classification of Instruments in Power Plant – Mechanical Instruments and Electrical

Instruments; Thermal Power Station, Combined/Cogen Plant; Power Plant operation – efficiency, reliability, accuracy, cost and safety; operating values and ranges of parameters –temperature, pressure, flow and levels; plant safety lifecycles and safety integrity levels; Power

Plant control system – integrating process control and substation automation; control types – model based coordinated control concept, adaptive control, gain-scheduling control

Advanced Principles of Control Systems

ACE 651 – Advanced Principles of Control Systems (3 Credit Hours)

Review of sensors (voltage, current, power, torque, frequency, temperature, flow rate, position

and pressure sensors). Review of Laplace Transforms for (representing process control systems

and solving ordinary differential equations). First Order System, Second Order System,

Integrating Systems and Dead Time in Controller Algorithms. Coordinate Transform (dqo axis

transform) of Multiphase Variables (such as voltage, current and flux) for dynamic and steady

state systems. Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems. State Vector Modeling/Analysis

of Controlled Devices/Systems. Stability Analysis Methods of Linear and Nonlinear Control

Systems using the Continuous Time and Discrete Time Space Vector Control Concepts.