Fluid temperature measurement

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2003-11-17

2008-05-27

Verbitsky, Gail (Department: 2855)

Thermal measuring and testing

Temperature measurement

Composite temperature-related paramenter

C374S166000, C374S148000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07377687

ABSTRACT:
A fluid temperature measurement probe, particularly for total temperature measurements in high temperature unsteady gas flows, such as in gas turbine engines. A pair of thin film resistance thermometers are deposited on the probe to sense its surface temperature at respective locations and the structure of the probe is configured such that the regions into which heat diffuses from the respective locations have different thermal products. In this way the thin film elements experience different heat transfer rates when exposed to the same fluid temperature. In one embodiment this is achieved by applying one of the elements to the surface of a solid rod of glass or ceramic and the other element to a portion which has been machined to leave an air pocket under a thin cylindrical wall of the rod material. In use the probe is exposed only temporarily to the high temperature fluid and withdrawn again before reaching its softening temperature. The total temperature Ttof the fluid can be calculated from the expression Tt=Tw1+q1(Tw2−Tw1)/(q1−q2), where Tw1and Tw2are the probe surface measured by the respective thin film elements and q1and q2are the respective heat transfer rates experienced thereby, the latter derived from the respective surface temperature histories.

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