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<p>Temperature monitoring is critical in almost every type of machinery and application, especially in rotating components such as jet turbines, engines, and power plants, etc. These components involve harsh environments and where the physical connections for monitoring systems are impossible. This paper presents a resonant inductive-capacitive (L-C) circuit based wireless temperature sensor suitable for working in these harsh environments to monitor the temperature of rotating components. Design and performance analysis of the wireless temperature sensor has been conducted and the sensor prototype was successfully fabricated and calibrated up to 200°C with sensitivity of 30 kHz/°C. As a result it is confirmed that temperature monitoring of a rotating component can be carried out without requiring physical connection, power supplies or active elements in the sensor circuit.</p>
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Temperature monitoring is critical in almost every type of machinery and application, especially in rotating components such as jet turbines, engines, and power plants, etc. These components involve harsh environments and where the physical connections for monitoring systems are impossible. This paper presents a resonant inductive-capacitive (L-C) circuit based wireless temperature sensor suitable for working in these harsh environments to monitor the temperature of rotating components. Design and performance analysis of the wireless temperature sensor has been conducted and the sensor prototype was successfully fabricated and calibrated up to 200°C with sensitivity of 30 kHz/°C. As a result it is confirmed that temperature monitoring of a rotating component can be carried out without requiring physical connection, power supplies or active elements in the sensor circuit.

A wireless inductive-capacitive (L-C) sensor for rotating component temperature monitoring

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Temperature monitoring is critical in almost every type of machinery and application, especially in rotating components such as jet turbines, engines, and...

A wireless inductive-capacitive (L-C) sensor for rotating component temperature monitoring

Data publikacji: 01 cze 2011

Zakres stron: 325 - 337

Otrzymano: 13 maj 2011

Przyjęty: 27 maj 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-442

© 2011 Rogie I. Rodriguez et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.