• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권7호
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• pp.1853-1859
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• 2019

The two-thermocouple method was investigated experimentally to evaluate its accuracy for the measurement of local wall temperature and heat flux on a heat transfer tube with an electric heater rod installed in an annulus channel. This work revealed that a thermocouple flush-mounted in a surface groove serves as a good reference method for the accurate measurement of the wall temperature, whereas two thermocouples installed at different depths in the tube wall yield large bias errors in the calculation of local heat flux and wall temperature. These errors result from conductive and convective changes due to the fin effect of the thermocouple sheath. To eliminate the bias errors, we proposed a calibration method based on both the local heat flux and Reynolds number of the cooling water. The calibration method was validated with the measurement of local heat flux and wall temperature against experimental data obtained for single-phase convection and two-phase condensation flows inside the tube. In the manuscript, Section 1 introduces the importance of local heat flux and wall temperature measurement, Section 2 explains the experimental setup, and Section 3 provides the measured data, causes of measurement errors, and the developed calibration method.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.190-199
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• 1998

a new measuring method is suggested to determine the time constant of a thermocouple wire to be applied for the measurement of the true fluid temperatures in varying flow states. Based on the techniques of internal heating which are commonly used to measure mean time constants we extend the existing method to measure instantaneous time constants continuously. A method of measurement and analysis is presented and verified experimentally.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.372-377
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• 2013

This study investigated the interface temperatures for the sliding friction of three types of pins fabricated with thermocouple wires by the suction casting method. Optical microscopy was used to examine the surrounding material state at the bonding interface with the thermocouple wires. Friction tests were performed under dry sliding conditions against stainless steel 304 at nominal stresses of 1.42-4.25 MPa and sliding speeds of 0.5-1.25 m/s. Tribological data were collected using a custom-made pin-on-disk apparatus that measured the interface temperature and corresponding friction coefficient. Static tests were performed to demonstrate the functionality and reliability of the thermocouple wires-combined temperature sensor (TCTS). Each TCTS showed good linearity and sensitivity and very similar response times for the thermocouple and critical temperature during sliding friction.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회B
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• pp.2059-2063
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• 2008

When a thermocouple is placed in a high temperature gas-flow stream, the measured temperature could be biased from the true gas temperature due to a large radiation heat loss from a thermocouple surface to its surroundings. In this study, two thermocouples of unequal diameters with 1/8 inch and 1/16 inch are used to correct the radiation effect. The method is called the reduced radiation error (RRE). The preliminary test results show that the radiation and the sheath conduction cannot be negligible for the gas temperature measurement. To minimize the sheath conduction effect, all the thermocouples will have a grounded junction and 1/8 inch thermocouple will be replaced with 1 mm thermocouples. In addition, the computational fluid dynamics code analysis shows that there is a negligible temperature difference between the positions where the thermocouples were installed.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제38권12호
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• pp.983-990
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 등온 벽에서 가까이에 위치한 유동과 같이 온도 구배가 큰 곳에서 발생하는 전도오차를 줄이기 위해 새로운 열전대의 형상 설계 및 제작 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 전도오차를 줄이기 위하여 지름이 $79.9{\mu}m$인 열전대를 이용했으며, 아크 용접을 통해 제작된 상대적으로 접점이 큰 일반 열전대와 다른 butt-welded 열전대를 제작하기 위하여 용접용 5 축 장비가 고안됐다. 열전대의 단면을 맞닿게 하여 용접해 접합부위 크기를 최소화 했다. 온도 보정 실험을 통하여, 일반적인 형상의 열전대와 이 연구에서 제안하는 열전대의 온도 측정 결과가 동일함을 알 수 있었다. 접합부가 $79.9{\mu}m$ 지름을 가지는 butt-welded 열전대를 온도 경계층에 침투시켜서 전도에 의한 오차를 최소화하여 급격히 변하는 온도 경계층의 온도를 효과적으로 측정할 수 있게 되었다. 개발된 센서를 이용하여 선형 터빈 날개가 장착된 풍동에서 온도 경계층을 측정하였고, 측정된 결과를 Nusselt 수로 나타내었다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.781-784
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• 2005

Twenty four types of thermopile for micro spectrometer infrared sensors were fabricated on low-stress $Si_3N_4$ membranes with $1.2{\mu}m-thickness$ using MEMS technology. Poly-Si thin film with thickness of 3500 ${\AA}$ as the first thermocouple material, was deposited by LPCVD method. And aluminum thin film with thickness of 6000 ${\AA}$ as the second thermocouple material, was deposited by sputtering method. Thermopile were designed and fabricated for optimum conditions by five parameters of thermocouple numbers (16 ${\sim}$ 48), thermocouple line widths (10 ${\mu}m$ ${\sim}$ 25 ${\mu}m$), thermocouple lengths (100 ${\mu}m$ ${\sim}$ 500 ${\mu}m$), membrane areas ($1^2\;mm^2$ ${\sim}$ $2.5^2\;mm^2$) and junction areas (150 ${\mu}m^2$ ${\sim}$ 750 ${\mu}m^2$), respectively. Electromotive forces of fabricated thermopile were measured 1.1 mV ${\sim}$ 7.4 mV at $400^{\circ}C$. It was thought that measurement results could be used for thermopile infrared sensors optimum structure for micro spectrometers.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.209-218
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• 2002

The temperature field of a counterflow non-premixed flame is investigated using thermocouples of two sizes. A thermal balance is performed on the thermocouple in order to calculate the magnitude of the radiation corrections involved. Both the thermocouple wire and bead are separately considered to be the relevant thermal surface to which convective heat transfer takes place, and from which radiation lasses occur. The flame is also simulated by using a detailed chemical kinetic mechanism in a previously developed computer code. The local thermo-physical properties of the gas mixture, required to calculate the corrections, are determined both from the simulation, and by approximating the properties of the mixture as those of molecular nitrogen at the measured temperatures. It is concluded that the thermocouple wire is the appropriate thermal surface to which radiation corrections apply, in the absence of information about the gas mixture, its properties can be reasonably approximated by those of nitrogen rm ($N_2$), and the radiation corrections are very sensitive to misalignments in the temperature and velocity fields.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 1996

This is an experimental investigation of the temperature generated in a cutting tool during the machining of stainless steel. The temperature results from the wear of the cutting tool are considered in order to investigate the relation between cause and effect of these factors. This possibility has been tested using a thermocouple technique to record temperature vs. time curves for a variety of cutting conditions. This is done by employing a thermocouple inserted on the tool tip near the major cutting edge. Temperature distributions are calculated using finite element method and compared to the contour maps measured by an optical system. It suggests that the temperature gradients and the tool performance will be dependent on certain facotrs in tool geometry when cutting this material.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.863-870
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• 2004

The temperature and soot particle measurement technique in a laminar diffusion flame has been studied to investigate the characteristics of soot particle with temperature using a co-flow burner. The temperature distribution in the flame were measured by rapid insertion of a R-type thermocouple and the soot particles by LEM/LIS techniques. In these measurement, soot volume fraction, number density and soot diameters were analyzed experimentally. As a results, the spacial distributions of particle volume fraction, soot diameter, and number density are mapped throughout the flame using the Rayleigh theory for the scattering of light by particles. A laser extinction method was used to measure the soot volume fraction and laser induced scattering method was used to measure the soot particle diameter and number density. Also, we measured temperature without the effect of soot particles attached to the thermocouple junction, which is close to the nozzle. In this result, we found that upstream zone has a unstable flowing in co-flow diffusion flame and the y-axis temperature of flame has a uniform temperature distribution in the most soot volume fraction zone.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1267-1273
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• 2004

The temperature and soot particle measurement technique in a laminar diffusion flame have been studied to investigate the characteristics of soot particle with temperature using a co-flow burner. The temperature distributions in the flame were measured by rapid insertion of a R-type thermocouple and the soot particles were detected were detected by LEM/LIS techniques. In these measurement, soot volume fraction, number density and soot diameters were analyzed experimentally. As a results, the spacial distributions of particle volume fraction, soot diameter, and number density are mapped throughout the flame using the Rayleigh theory for the scattering of light by absorbing particles. A laser extinction method was used to measure the soot volume fraction and Laser induced scattering method was used to measure the soot particle diameter and number density. Also, we measured temperature without the effect of soot particles attached to the thermocouple junction, which is close to the nozzle. In this result, we found that upstream zone has a unstable flowing in co-flow diffusion flame and the y-axis temperature of flame has a uniform temperature distribution in the most soot volume fraction zone.