Thermocouple efficiency

Control Devices. Control devices have advanced from manual control to sophisticated computet-assisted operation. Radiation pyrometers in conjunction with thermocouples monitor furnace temperatures at several locations (see Temperature measurement). Batch tilting is usually automatically controlled. Combustion air and fuel are metered and controlled for optimum efficiency. For regeneration-type units, furnace reversal also operates on a timed program. Data acquisition and digital display of operating parameters are part of a supervisory control system. The grouping of display information at the control center is typical of modem furnaces. 

As far as the equipment is concerned, the miniaturization of many components has lead to construction of smaller apparatus without sacrificing the accuracy, efficiency or versatility. Of importance for this development was also the availability of better and new construction materials, e.g. for measuring heads, thermocouples, furnaces etc. 

Several techniques are available for thermal conductivity measurements, in the steady state technique a steady state thermal gradient is established with a known heat source and efficient heat sink. Since heat losses accompany this non-equilibrium measurement the thermal gradient is kept small and thus carefully calibrated thermometers and heat source must be used. A differential thermocouple technique and ac methods have been used. Wire connections to the sample can represent a perturbation to the measurement. Techniques with pulsed heat sources (including laser pulses) have been used in these cases the dynamic response interpretation is more complicated. 

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Ionization chambers and Geiger counters can be used for detecting extreme ultraviolet radiation. Knowledge of the ionization efficiency of the gas makes it possible to use them for measurement of absolute energy. Ultraviolet radiation also can be detected with a thermocouple, thermopile, or bolometer. 

Fig. 9.16, Low-temperature infrared cell (cross-seclion). An indium gasket between the window and copper block greatly increases the efficiency of heal transfer, if the temperature of the window is to be measured with a thermocouple, Ihe leads may be passed though pinholes in the upper O-ring. Under compression of Ihe joint, this type of electrical lead-through is vacuum-light. Threaded rods used to clamp Ihe end plates have been omitted for clarity. A spring holds Ihe KBr disk in place.

Installing additional thermocouples is a possible way to increase the effective range of the measurement and to improve the quality of the control. A still higher control efficiency is insured by the application of a modified state observer and of an optimal state feedback (2). 

In contrast to the use of large Sf ratios, where attention is focussed on the wall of the tube, Wood and Wise [62, 63] have used short tubes to determine j for the material simulating the end plate. They investigated the recombination efficiency of several metals for H atoms. In the later study [63], their terminal probe was in the form of a heated spiral filament of the metal under investigation. The decrease in energy necessary to maintain the filament at constant temperature was measured and assumed to be proportional to the atom concentration at the cross-section occupied by the filament. The method is preferable to the use of thermocouple probes, whose change in temperature might affect the atom decay profiles. Wood and Wise attribute differences in their results obtained... 

A 1500-W tubular heater is wrapped around the reactor. The autoclave is placed inside a copper pipe, with Fiberfrax bulk fiber insulation packed between the copper pipe and the reactor. Four 1000-W quarter-circle ceramic heaters are placed around the copper pipe. The space between the copper pipe and the ceramic heaters is filled with aluminum balls for efficient and uniform heat transfer from the heaters to the copper pipe. The bottom of the copper vessel is closed with a copper plate. Beneath the copper plate, there are two heaters (a small one of 500 W and a larger one of 1000 W), which are tightly clamped to the bottom copper plate. The top of the copper pipe is similarly covered with another copper plate, and two slots are provided for the feed and product gas lines, coolant inlet and outlet lines, thermocouple extension wires, and the lead wires of the tubular heater. Two ring heaters (660 and 1000 W) are placed on the top copper plate. One thermocouple and a tape heater are placed on the shaft extension to minimize the heat loss through the shaft. No insulation is placed around the ceramic heaters to achieve better control of... 

Both cold and hot tests were carried out in the batch scale rotative reactor. In the cold tests, the bottom layer renewal efficiency, fi (see q. 1-3), has been measured as a function of the agitation speed [7]. During the hot tests, a certain quantity of feedstock is dropped into the reactor when the reactor has been first heated up to 520 C by the molten salt. Several thermocouples record the temperature change in the molten salt and in the bed of particles. The heat transfer coefficient from the molten salt and the feedstock in the reactor is determined as a function of the temperature variation [6]. 

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