Temperature probes

In enamelled tanks with protection electrodes of low current output, fittings [e.g., heating surfaces (cathodic components)] must be electrically isolated from the tank and the ground. Figure 20-2 shows such a bushing. Smaller cathodic components which take up only negligible protection current (e.g., temperature probes) do not need to be insulated. 

The axial transducers should have one probe sensing the shaft itself within 12 inches (305 mm) of the active surface of the thrust collar with the other probe sensing the machined surface of the thrust collar. The probes should be mounted facing in opposite directions. Temperature probes embedded in the bearings are often more useful in preventing thrust-bearing failures than... 

Inlet and diseharge temperatures are the stagnation temperatures at the respeetive points and should be measured within an aeeuraey of 1 °F (0.55 °C). When the veloeity of the gas stream is more than 125 fps (36.6 mps), the veloeity effeet should be ineluded in the temperature measurement with a total temperature probe. This probe is a thermoeouple with its hot junetion provided with a shielded eup. The eup opening points upstream. A trade-off has to be made in a field test situation where the gas is not elean. 

The nodes in die model are the respeetive surfaees of bodies along the path of flow of the heat. These ean be transistor eases, heatsink surfaees, the semi-eonduetor die, ete. The ealeulated temperatures of these surfaees ean aetually be measured using a temperature probe at their respeetive surfaees. If the power dissipation is not known but all the thermal resistanees are known, one ean extrapolate baekwards within the model and determine the power being dissipated within the die by simply measuring the temperature differenee aeross one of the thermal boundaries. 

In the case of a temperature probe, the capacity is a heat capacity C == me, where m is the mass and c the material heat capacity, and the resistance is a thermal resistance R = l/(hA), where h is the heat transfer coefficient and A is the sensor surface area. Thus the time constant of a temperature probe is T = mc/ hA). Note that the time constant depends not only on the probe, but also on the environment in which the probe is located. According to the same principle, the time constant, for example, of the flow cell of a gas analyzer is r = Vwhere V is the volume of the cell and the sample flow rate. 

The Nernst equation shows that the glass electrode potential for a given pH value will be dependent upon the temperature of the solution. A pH meter, therefore, includes a biasing control so that the scale of the meter can be adjusted to correspond to the temperature of the solution under test. This may take the form of a manual control, calibrated in 0 C, and which is set to the temperature of the solution as determined with an ordinary mercury thermometer. In some instruments, arrangements are made for automatic temperature compensation by inserting a temperature probe (a resistance thermometer) into the solution, and the output from this is fed into the pH meter circuit. 

If the instrument is equipped with a manual temperature control, take the temperature of the solutions and set the control to this value if automatic control is available, then place the temperature probe into some of the first... 

Check whether the instrument supplied is equipped for automatic temperature compensation, and, if so, that the temperature probe (resistance thermometer) is available. If it is not so equipped, then the temperature of the solutions to be used must be measured, and the appropriate setting made on the manual temperature control of the instrument. 

B. (Z)-l-Iodo-l-heptene.2 A solution of 8.52 g of (112 mmol) of borane-dimethylsulfide complex (Note 13) in 100 mL of ether is added to a flame-dried, three-necked, 300-mL, round-bottomed flask equipped with stirbar, temperature probe, and N2 inlet. The solution is cooled to 5°C with an ice-bath. Cyclohexene (18.4 g, 224 mmol) (Note 14) is then added by syringe over 10 min while keeping the temperature below 15°C. The mixture is stirred at 5°C for 15 min. A white solid precipitates either towards the end of the addition or during the subsequent stirring period. The reaction mixture is allowed to warm to room temperature and is stirred for 1 hr. The non-homogeneous solution is cooled to 2-3°C... 

For thermal reactions a variable temperature probe is necessary since optimum polarized spectra are usually obtained in reactions having a half-life for radical formation in the range 1-5 minutes. Reactant concentrations are usually in the range normally used in n.m.r. spectroscopy, although the enhancement of intensity in the polarized spectrum means that CIDNP can be detected at much lower concentrations. Accumulation of spectra from rapid repetitive scans can sometimes be valuable in detecting weak signals. 

For gaseous sterilization procedures, elevated temperatures are monitored for each sterilization cycle by temperature probes, and routine leak tests are performed to ensure gas-tight seals. Pressure and humidity measurements are recorded. Gas concentration is measured independently of pressure rise, often by reference to weight of gas used. 

The pH (or pI) term of the Nemst equation contains the electrode slope factor as a linear temperature relationship. This means that a pH determination requires the instantaneous input, either manual or automatic, of the prevailing temperature value into the potentiometer. In the manual procedure the temperature compensation knob is previously set on the actual value. In the automatic procedure the adjustment is permanently achieved in direct connection with a temperature probe immersed in the solution close to the indicator electrode the probe usually consists of a Pt or Ni resistance thermometer or a thermistor normally based on an NTC resistor. An interesting development in 1980 was the Orion Model 611 pH meter, in which the pH electrode itself is used to sense the solution temperature (see below). 

As indicated above, the Model 611 does not require a separate temperature probe and so it has no temperature knob to be operated its circuits instead perform the following functions (abbreviated as in the Orion specification) (1) induce ac signal across pH probe (2) measure average dc potential of probe (3) convert amplitude of ac signal to dc potential (V) (4) calculate log V (5) measure in-phase ac current through probe (6) convert current to dc potential proportional to current (/) (7) calculate log / (8) calculate log R (resistance of probe) = log V - log I (9) convert log R into signal proportional to temperature (displayed) (10) use temperature signal to correct pH, to be read. 

It might appear that to use a short binary string to represent a message from a sensor such as a temperature probe, which monitors a property that can vary continuously over a real-number range, is to throw information... 

A Fluke 51 K/J digital thermometer with temperature probe is used to monitor internal reaction temperature. 

A particularly difficult problem in microwave processing is the correct measurement of the reaction temperature during the irradiation phase. Classical temperature sensors (thermometers, thermocouples) will fail since they will couple with the electromagnetic field. Temperature measurement can be achieved either by means of an immersed temperature probe (fiber-optic or gas-balloon thermometer) or on the outer surface of the reaction vessels by means of a remote IR sensor. Due to the volumetric character of microwave heating, the surface temperature of the reaction vessel will not always reflect the actual temperature inside the vessel [7]. 

Temperature measurement is achieved by means of a remote IR sensor beneath the lower outer surface of the vessels. The operation limit of the IR sensor is 400 °C, but it is regulated by the software safety features to 280 °C as the operation limits of the materials used are around 300 °C. For additional control, temperature measurement in a reference vessel by means of an immersed gas-balloon thermometer is available. The operational limit of this temperature probe is 310 °C, making it suitable for reactions under extreme temperature and pressure conditions. 

Multimode instruments with an IR sensor mounted in the cavity side wall (see Section 3.4) certainly need larger volumes for precise temperature monitoring. Immersion temperature probes require a well-defined minimum volume for accurate measurement, depending on the total vessel volume. It must be ensured that the temperature probe has extensive contact with the reaction mixture, even when the mixture is stirred, in order to obtain reliable, reproducible results. 

It is clear from the Nemst equation that the temperature of the solution affects the response slope (2.303A7//0 of the calibration curve. The electrode voltage changes linearly in relationship to changes in temperature at a given pH therefore, the pH of any solution is a function of its temperature. For example, the electrode response slope increases from 59.2mV/pH at 25°C to 61.5 mV/pH at a body temperature of 37°C. For modem pH sensing systems, a temperature probe is normally combined with the pH electrode. The pH meter with an automatic temperature compensation (ATC) function automatically corrects the pH value based on the temperature of the solution detected with the temperature probe. 

FIGURE 10.2 A schematic diagram of a combination glass pH electrode. A thin glass bulb with an inner Ag/AgCI electrode responds to pH changes in the test solution. A second Ag/AgCI in an outer jacket with a liquid junction serves the reference electrode for potentiometric measurement. An attached temperature probe is used to compensate for temperature effects. 

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