Dynamic Properties of Electrochemical Oxygen Gas Sensor and Method to Estimate of New Steady-State

Abstract

The paper presents the designed system to measurements of gas sensor transient characteristics. Electrochemical oxygen sensor SK-25F was selected for measurements from point of view application in health care and ensuring human safety in industrial production facilities and laboratories. The aim of this work is to design an automatic system for measuring the transient function G(s) of electrochemical sensors and to identify the mathematic model from a sample of sensors. The automatic measurement system based on a microcontroller for the measurements of dynamical characteristics of gas sensors was designed and developed. The result is transfer function with fit to estimation data higher as 99.48 %. The bandwidth of gas sensors was calculated on average at 0.0285763 Hz with a maximum deviation of 0.34 %. Finally, an algorithm for detecting the exceeding of the frequency range of an electrochemical gas sensor is proposed. Its application is in speed control UAV with the aim of accurate measurements of gases in the air by electrochemical sensors.

Keywords

• Sensors
• oxygen
• measurement techniques
• transfer functions
• electrochemical devices
• Laplace equations