Tomographic imaging of various industrial processes is another example of how instrumentation is beneficial with respect to safety as well as cost. We also have several instrumentation projects within other disciplines, such as medical instrumentation and environmental monitoring. Since instrumentation is interdisciplinary in its nature it also requires extensive use of mathematics and information technology, which are used for the development of electronic circuits and communication lines, for modelling, simulation and control of sensors and processes, and of course for the preparation and analysis of measurement data. Our students are offered interesting and relevant courses spanning from theoretical considerations to experimental development. Courses offered From an educational perspective, the Industrial Instrumentation Research Group has become popular, with about 25 graduate students and 5 PhD students.
Industrial tomography entails cross sectional imaging of objects or process parameters.
Tomographic imaging of objects offers a unique opportunity to unravel the complexities of structure without the need to invade the object. Tomographic systems may also be used for developing and verifying process theories and models, as well as for developing and improving process instrumentation. At the Department of Physics in Bergen, the principal applications of tomographic techniques are multi-component pipe flow imaging and phase height imaging in separator systems. The research programme is particularly concerned with capacitance-based sensors and nuclear radiation detectors. Process and sensor modelling is of great importance in order to obtain more accurate measurement systems, especially for determining the optimal geometry of a sensor system.