MEASUREMENTS
ARE WHERE TEMPERATURE SENSORS MEET THE "REAL WORLD"! WHERE THE RESULTS
PROVE THAT ONE UNDERSTANDS THEIR PROPERTIES AND HAS SELECTED A SENSOR WELL ENOUGH
TO DO THE JOB WITHIN THE DESIRED MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY!
Many
people have trodden these paths before you and there is a wealth of information
on successful use of temperature sensors under a great many different conditions
and contexts. Cataloging proven uses of temperature sensors or temperature measurements (called applications by most vendors)
can help in two ways. First, it saves one from "reinventing the wheel"
all over again. Second, it can make a new measurement problem easier to solve
if it is analogous to a proven one, with perhaps only a change to one or two of
the influencing conditions.
This section of the site is where the real fun
begins for anyone trying to make a serious temperature or dewpoint measurement.
The object is to catalog web sources of information of such measurement successes.
The use of a structured approach to measurements helps even more but will have
to wait until a little later. There are courses which teach such things, for instance,
ISA Training ,and our own training
programs (in process), but not for free.
The
Temperature Sensor Community website, www.TempSensor.net has a feature enabling all interested individuals to enter
reviews of products and services as well as sucesses in measurements. We plan
to gather this information over time and provide it, with appropriate acknowledements,
for all to access freely, in the spirit of Internet sharing.
In addition to
user reviews, the Community webite also has a self-service facility for manufacturers
to add their own corporate liting as well as details of new product and personnel
news. Again, these inputs are reviewed for appropriateness and overzealousness.
ENVIRONMENT
TEMPERATURES & WEATHER Environment Temperature is another significant
application of temperature sensors. The page also features links on Weather.
Food Temperatures, Food Temperature Sensors and Food
Safety A page inspired by the extensive use of a wide range of different
types of temperature sensors in the measurment of food temperature in many aspects
of cooking, not the least of which is in assuring that various food types are
cooked sufficiently to kill any dangerous organisms that may be in them.
HVAC
The use of temperature and humidity sensors and other measurement devices to control
the environment in which people live and work and in which, too, some products
are processed. This is a widespread activity involving huge companies as well
as small ones in providing equipment, training, design and services to many individual
and corporate customers. There are many portal sites on the Web leading to more
details, but our page attempts an overview of this important use of temperature
and humidity sensors.
SLAG
DETECTION BY IR THERMOGRAPHY A unique application pioneered in the Steel
Industries of the world. Includes access to two full-text technical papers and
a PPT slide presentation.
INFRARED RADIATION THERMOMETER
MEASUREMENTS AND USES A reasonably mature area of this site with links
to vendor pages that provide applications information, some in great depth. It
is planned to expand this section greatly in the near future with actual full-text
papers, like some of the steel mill applications
(above), since the primary author of the site has
much experience in the field.
THERMOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS Recently
enhanced with major page revisions, three new related pages and an expanded vendors
page.
RTD MEASUREMENTS (Under Construction)
THERMISTOR MEASUREMENTS(Under
Construction)
LIQUID IN GLASS THERMOMETER MEASUREMENTS (Under Construction)
FIBEROPTIC THERMOMETER USES (Under Construction)
OTHER TEMPERATURE
SENSOR APPLICATIONS (Under Construction)
TEMPERATURE
MEASUREMENTS: REFERENCE BOOKS AND PAPERS This link takes you to our reference
list of books and published works that contain among them a wealth of information
on how temperature sensors are used, the recommended limits of use for each type
and much more. As stated elsewhere in this web site, there is little excuse for
not reading the literature! Most everything you want to do has been done before
and the details are written down. So open your eyes, swallow a bit of your ego
and read!
Good
luck and best wishes. If you have some interesting success, let
us know and we'll help you share that with others who visit these pages. That's
the Internet tradition and the way we both grow.
