ABSTRACT
Temperature transducers are frequently employed to keep track of process variables with different kinds of industrial controllers. One of the widely used temperature sensors is Pt100. A novel approach of utilizing an electroacoustic transducer in signal conditioning for Pt100 is proposed in this paper. A "signal conditioner" is a resonance tube filled with air, which is operated in a free resonance mode. The Pt100 wires are connected to one of the leads of the speaker in the resonance tube where the temperature changes, which is related to Pt100 resistance. The resistance affects the amplitude of the standing wave that is detected by an electrolyte microphone. An algorithm for measuring the amplitude of the speaker signal is described, as well as the building and functioning of the electroacoustic resonance tube signal conditioner. The microphone signal is acquired as a voltage using LabVIEW software. A virtual instrument (VI) developed under LabVIEW provides a measure of the voltage using standard VIs. The findings of the experiments reveal a link between the measured amplitude of the standing wave within the tube and the change in Pt100 resistance as the ambient temperature changes. Additionally, the suggested method may interface with any computer system when a sound card is added to it without the need for any extra measuring tools. The maximum nonlinearity error at full-scale deflection (FSD) is estimated at roughly 3.77%, and the experimental results and a regression model are used to assess the relative inaccuracy of the developed signal conditioner. When comparing the proposed approach with well-known approaches for Pt100 signal conditioning, the proposed one has several advantages such as its simplicity of connecting Pt100 to a personal computer directly via the sound card of any personal computer. In addition, there is no need for a reference resistance to perform a temperature measurement using such a signal conditioner.
ABSTRACT
Temperature transducers are commonly used to monitor process parameters that are controlled by various types of industrial controllers. The purpose of this study is to design and model a simple microcontroller-based acoustic temperature transducer based on the variations of resonance conditions in a cylindrical resonance tube. The transducer's operation is based on the generation of an acoustic standing wave in the free resonance mode of generation within a cylindrical resonance tube which is converted into a train of pulses using Schmitt trigger circuit. The frequency of the generated standing wave (i.e., the train of pulses) is measured by the Arduino Uno microcontroller, where a digital pin is used to acquire pulses that are counted using a build-in software function in an Arduino IDE environment. Experimental results are performed for three sizes of diameters to investigate the effect of the diameter of resonance tube on the obtained results. The maximum nonlinearity error according to Full-Scale Deflection (FSD) is about 2.3 percent, and the relative error of the transducer is evaluated using experimental findings and the regression model. The circuit simplicity and design of the suggested transducer, as well as the linearity of its measurements, are notable.
