AIP Advances (Mar 2016)

Study of ultrasonic thermometry based on ultrasonic time-of-flight measurement

  • Ruixi Jia,
  • Qingyu Xiong,
  • Lijie Wang,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Xuehua Shen,
  • Shan Liang,
  • Xin Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943676
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3
pp. 035006 – 035006-11

Abstract

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Ultrasonic thermometry is a kind of acoustic pyrometry and it has been evolving as a new temperature measurement technology for various environment. However, the accurate measurement of the ultrasonic time-of-flight is the key for ultrasonic thermometry. In this paper, we study the ultrasonic thermometry technique based on ultrasonic time-of-flight measurement with a pair of ultrasonic transducers for transmitting and receiving signal. The ultrasonic transducers are installed in a single path which ultrasonic travels. In order to validate the performance of ultrasonic thermometry, we make a contrast about the absolute error between the measured temperature value and the practical one. With and without heater source, the experimental results indicate ultrasonic thermometry has high precision of temperature measurement.