scholarly journals Evaluation of fruit tree transpiration with heat flux sensor

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Riczu ◽  
A. Nagy ◽  
J. Tamás
Keyword(s):  
Flow Measurement ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Fruit Tree ◽  
Heat Flux Sensor ◽  
Professional Challenges ◽  
Atmosphere System ◽  
Tree Transpiration ◽  
Investigation Period ◽  
Soil Water Properties ◽  
Flux Sensor

One of the biggest professional challenges of the following years is to develop the water resource management for apple trees. In order to know the water consumption of plants, some traditional and modern methods could useful. In our research the sap flow measurement of the plants were carried out. We have analyzed the transpiration properties of the trees in the investigation period. In order to compare the transpiration of the trees, the leaf areas were scanned and evaluated. Beside these measurements, soil water properties were determined by tensiometers, thus it makes possible to observe the soil-plant-atmosphere system.

Wearable Core Temperature Thermometer Implemented by the MEMS Heat Flux Sensor

2015 ◽  
Vol 135 (8) ◽  
pp. 343-348
Author(s):  
Shinya Nakagawa ◽  
Masao Shimizu ◽  
Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Core Temperature ◽  
Heat Flux Sensor ◽  
Flux Sensor

Heat Flux Sensor With Minimal Impact on Boundary Conditions

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Saidi ◽  
Jungho Kim
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Flux Sensor ◽  
Inverse Heat Conduction ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Sensor Performance ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Flux Sensor ◽  
The Ideal

A technique for determining the heat transfer on the far surface of a wall based on measuring the heat transfer and temperature on the near wall is presented. Although heat transfer measurements have previously been used to augment temperature measurements in inverse heat conduction methods, the sensors used alter the heat flow through the surface, disturbing the very quantity that is desired to be measured. The ideal sensor would not alter the boundary condition that would exist were the sensor not present. The innovation of this technique in that it has minimal impact on the wall boundary condition. Since the sensor is placed on the surface of the wall, no alteration of the wall is needed. The theoretical basis for the experimental technique as well as experimental results showing the heat flux sensor performance is presented.

scholarly journals Novel portable device to analyze the moisture permeability of car seat

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (03) ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
MAZARI FUNDA BUYUK ◽  
MAZARI ADNAN ◽  
HAVELKA ANTONIN ◽  
GLOMBIKOVA VIERA
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Pid Controller ◽  
Portable Device ◽  
Heat Flux Sensor ◽  
The Real ◽  
Car Seats ◽  
Car Seat ◽  
Testing Method ◽  
Heat Flux Sensors ◽  
Flux Sensor

The comfort performance of car seat is important factor while producing car seats, each layer of the car seat is tested separately on classical testing machines, which lacks the real car seat performance when all layers are sandwiched. The complication of car seat design and the testing method bring a great demand of portable device which can measure the comfort performance of the real car seat. In this research a novel portable device is designed which work with special heat flux sensor and the device is connected to computer by USB port and values of heat flux temperature of the water and temperature of the surface is provided by the software. Heat flux sensors measure the heat transfer through a surface, and are expressed in kw/m2. The software controls the heating plate adjustment using PID controller. The device is tested with real car seat and shows repeatable and reproducible results.

Design and Calibration of a Novel High Temperature Heat Flux Gage

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujay Raphael-Mabel ◽  
Scott Huxtable ◽  
Andrew Gifford ◽  
Thomas E. Diller
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Flux Sensor ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Metal Plates ◽  
New Type ◽  
Flux Sensor ◽  
Calibration Apparatus

A new type of heat flux sensor (HTHFS) has been designed and constructed for applications at high temperature and high heat flux. It is constructed by connecting solid metal plates to form brass/steel thermocouple junctions in a series circuit. The thermal resistance layer of the HTHFS consists of the thermocouple materials themselves, thus improving temperature limits and lowering the temperature disruption of the sensor. The sensor can even withstand considerable erosion of the surface with little effect on the operation. A new type of convection calibration apparatus was designed and built specifically to supply a large convection heat flux. The heat flux was supplied simultaneously to both a test and standard gage by using two heated jets of air that impinged perpendicularly on the surface of each gage. The sensitivity for the HTHFS was measured to have an average value of 20 μV/(W/cm2). The uncertainty in this result was determined to be ±10% over the entire range tested. The sensitivity agrees with the theoretically calculated sensitivity for the materials and geometry used. Recommendations for future improvements in the construction and use of the sensors are discussed.

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