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Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock.
The practice of agriculture is also known as "farming", while scientists, inventors and others devoted to improving farming methods and implements are also said to be engaged in agriculture. Instrumentation for agriculture itself means this.
It’s an advanced style of farming. Here we use modern tools to improve the production and efficiency.
Here we will not only discuss about faming of plants and livestock. But also about soil properties, different methods, instruments and gauges used to measure these properties. And other factors such as humidity, light, water resources, etc.
We will also learn about irrigation, greenhouse, fermentation, dairy industry, juice extraction,
Since we are living in a era of automation, it’s essential to think about automation in agriculture too, so knowledge about the use of modern technologies as such PLC and SCADA become an important factor.
The earth moving equipments are also an important factor of concern, when we are talking about instrumentation of agriculture.
COURSE CONTENT
COURSE CONTENT
Necessity of instrumentation & control for agriculture, engineering properties of soil: fundamental definitions & relationships, index properties of soil, permeability & seepage analysis, shear strength, Mohr’s circle of stress, active & passive earth pressures, stability & slopes, Sensors: introduction to sonic anemometers, hygrometers, fine wire thermocouples, open & close path gas analysers, brief introduction to various bio-sensors.
Flow diagram of sugar plant & instrumentation set up for it, flow diagram of fermenter & control(batch process),flow diagram of dairy industry & instrumentation set up for it, juice extraction control process & instrumentation set up for it .
Irrigation systems: necessity, irrigation methods: overhead, centre pivot, lateral move, micro irrigation systems & it’s performance, comparison of different irrigation systems, soil moisture measurement methods: resistance based method, voltage based method, thermal based method, details of gypsum block soil moisture sensor, irrigation scheduling, irrigation efficiencies, design considerations in irrigation channels.
Application of SCADA for DAM parameters & control, irrigation control management up- stream & down - stream control systems, green houses & instrumentation: ventilation, cooling & heating, wind speed, temperature & humidity, rain gauge carbon dioxide enrichment measurement & control.
Automation in earth moving equipments & farm equipments, application of SCADA & PLC in packing industry and cold storage systems, implementation of Hydraulic, pneumatic & electronics control circuits in harvester’s cotton pickers, tractor etc. classification of pumps: pump characteristics, pump selection & installation.
Leaf area length evapotranspiration, temperature, wetness & respiration measurement & data logging, electromagnetic radiations photosynthesis, infrared & UV bio sensor methods in agriculture, agro metrological instrumentation weather stations, surface flux measurement, soil water content measurement using time-domain reflectrometery (TDR), ground water occurrence confined & unconfined aquifers, evaluation of aquifer properties, ground water recharge.
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