Total Temperature Measurement of Gas at Microtube Outlet
This paper describes experimental results on the total temperature measurement of gas at the microtube exit. In order to measure the total temperature at the microtube outlet, two total temperature measuring devices with different structures were fabricated. One is six plastic baffle plates embedded inside with a thermally insulated exterior foamed polystyrene tube. The other is two glass fiber thimbles embedded inside it. The gas velocity was reduced by the plastic plates and the glass fiber thimbles, and the kinetic energy was converted into thermal energy. The fundamental premise of the total temperature measurement is the Joule Thomson effect present in real gases, which for a positive of the Joule Thomson coefficient involves the decrease in temperature when the gas experiences isenthalpic expansion. A PEEK microtube whose nominal inner diameter and outer diameter were 500 μmm and 1.6 mm, was used for assessing exact measurement of total temperature in the temperature measuring tube, since the thermal conductivity of the PEEK tube is very low. The measured total temperatures were compared with those obtained theoretically with the Joule Thomson coefficient and given thermodynamics properties.