What role does the thermocouple?

Thermocouple, is one of the industry commonly used temperature detecting element, is an instrument. It directly measuring the temperature and the temperature signals into a thermoelectric emfs, through electrical instrument ( Secondary instrument) Convert the temperature of the measured medium. Thermocouple is actually a kind of energy converter, it converts heat into electricity, using thermoelectric potential generated by the measuring temperature.

thermocouple features:

1, the assembly is simple, easy to change

2, reed temperature sensing element, the seismic performance is good

3, large measuring range, high accuracy

4, high mechanical strength, good compression performance

5, high temperature resistant, simple structure, easy to use.

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there are two kinds of structure of the thermocouple, regular and armor type.

ordinary thermocouples generally by the hot electrode, insulation pipe, casing protection and junction box parts, such as armoured thermocouple is the thermocouple wire, insulation material and metal protective casing combination after assembly, after stretching processing from a combination of a solid. But it takes a special electrical signal of thermocouple wires to pass, this kind of wire we called compensation conductor. Different thermocouples require different compensation conductor, its main function is connected to the thermocouple, away from the power of the reference junction of the thermocouple, so that the reference temperature stability.

how it works: thermocouple temperature measurement principle is based on thermoelectric effect. Connect the two different conductor or semiconductor into closed loops, when the two contacts in temperature is not at the same time, the circuit will produce thermoelectric potential, this kind of phenomenon called the thermoelectric effect, also known as the seebeck effect. There are two kinds of closed loop of thermoelectric potential of electric potential; The thermoelectric potential and contact potential. Thermoelectric potential means the same at both ends of the conductor potential because of the different temperature, different conductors with different electron density, so they produced by electric potential is not the same, the contact potential as its name implies is refers to the two different conductor in contact, because of their different electron density so produce certain electronic diffusion, when they reach a certain potential, which is formed by the balance after the contact potential depends on the size of the two different conductor material properties and their temperature contact point. Thermocouple main use: thermocouple mainly used for measuring temperature parameters in industrial production process.