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    Cold junction compensation is necessary when using thermocouples to measure temperatures because it accounts for errors caused by variations in the reference junction temperature. The document describes a system that uses cold junction compensation to monitor the temperature of an electrolyte using a thermocouple. It may be necessary to use cold junction compensation because the electrolyte operates at 280°C while the ambient temperature around the tank varies between 10-40°C. The document provides specifications and component options to design a circuit that monitors the temperature accurately to within 10°C using cold junction compensation.

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    Cold junction compensation is necessary when using thermocouples to measure temperatures because it accounts for errors caused by variations in the reference junction temperature. The document describes a system that uses cold junction compensation to monitor the temperature of an electrolyte using a thermocouple. It may be necessary to use cold junction compensation because the electrolyte operates at 280°C while the ambient temperature around the tank varies between 10-40°C. The document provides specifications and component options to design a circuit that monitors the temperature accurately to within 10°C using cold junction compensation.

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    Cold junction compensation is necessary when using thermocouples to measure temperatures because it accounts for errors caused by variations in the reference junction temperature. The document describes a system that uses cold junction compensation to monitor the temperature of an electrolyte using a thermocouple. It may be necessary to use cold junction compensation because the electrolyte operates at 280°C while the ambient temperature around the tank varies between 10-40°C. The document provides specifications and component options to design a circuit that monitors the temperature accurately to within 10°C using cold junction compensation.

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    Cold junction compensation is necessary when using thermocouples to measure temperatures because it accounts for errors caused by variations in the reference junction temperature. The document describes a system that uses cold junction compensation to monitor the temperature of an electrolyte using a thermocouple. It may be necessary to use cold junction compensation because the electrolyte operates at 280°C while the ambient temperature around the tank varies between 10-40°C. The document provides specifications and component options to design a circuit that monitors the temperature accurately to within 10°C using cold junction compensation.

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    Cold Junction compensation:

    3 System Design

    (a) Figure Q3 shows a


    system which utilises cold
    junction compensation. Discuss
    the importance of cold junction
    compensation and illustrate
    when it would and would not be
    necessary to use cold junction
    compensation.

    It is intended that the


    temperature of a liquid
    electrolyte be monitored by a
    thermocouple. The temperature
    of operation is 2800C, while the Figure Q3
    ambient temperature in the vicinity of the tank holding the electrolyte can vary between 100C-400C.
    The desired output voltage must have a range of 0-300 mV. It is essential that the temperature
    measurement is accurate to 10C. Given the data information in Table Q3a and Q3b, choose a
    suitable thermocouple and chose suitable component values for Figure Q3.
    [12 marks]

    (b) Determine if the designed circuit using the components provided satisfy the specified
    parameters. [13 marks]

    Temp (0C) Type J TCO Type K TCO Type T TCO


    (mV) (µV/0C) (mV) (µV/0C) (mV) (µV/0C)
    -200 -7.89 21.8 -5.891 15.2 -5.603 15.8

    -100 -4.632 41.1 -3.553 15.2 -.378 28.4


    0 0.000 50.4 0.000 30.5 0.000 38.8
    25 1.277 51.7 1.000 39.5 0.992 40.7
    100 5.268 54.4 4.095 40.5 4.277 46.8
    200 10.777 55.5 8.137 41.4 9.286 53.2
    300 16.325 55.4 12.207 39.9 14.860 58.1
    400 21.846 55.2 16.395 41.5 20.869 61.8
    500 27.388 55.9 20.640 41.9
    Table Q3a Type J, K and T Thermocouples. (TCO - temperature coefficient)

    ADS21 Diff Inst.Amp. AD590 Temp. Sensor


    Nonlinearity (±9 V) 0.1% Supply voltage - regulation 1% 10V
    temperature coefficient 3 ppm/0C Output sens. 1µA/K
    Input offset temperature coefficient 2 µV/OC Linearity <0.050C
    temperature coefficient 75 µV/OC Power supply rejection 0.2 µA/V

    AD580 2.5 Volt Reference


    Voltage supply - regulation 1% 10 V Sensor Parameters
    Line regulation 2 mV
    Temp. sens. 25 ppm/0C

    Table Q3b
    Current divider 2 resistors in parallel fed by a common source.

    From the requirement that the output is zero at 0OC (273K) the voltage produced by the current source and voltage
    sources have to be the same.

    273 × 10−6
    FG RR IJ = 2.5FG R IJ
    H R + R K H R + RK
    A A

    A A
    −6
    273 × 10 R = 2.5
    R = 9.16kΩ

    From the requirement that the sensitivity must be e.g. 51.7µVK-1


    we can now solve for RA
    RRA
    10−6 = 51.7 × 10−6
    RA + R
    RA 51.7 R +R R 9160
    = ⇒ A = = = 177.18
    RA + R R RA 51.7 51.7
    ⇒ RA + 9160 = 177.18RA
    9160
    ⇒ 9160 = 176.18RA ⇒ RA = = 51.99Ω
    176.18

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