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Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method
The most common and cheap indirect technique to measure relative humidity is by using psychrometer based on a dry and a wet temperature sensor. In this study, the measurement uncertainty of relative humidity was evaluated by this indirect method with some empirical equations for calculating relative...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335993/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28216599 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17020368 |
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description | The most common and cheap indirect technique to measure relative humidity is by using psychrometer based on a dry and a wet temperature sensor. In this study, the measurement uncertainty of relative humidity was evaluated by this indirect method with some empirical equations for calculating relative humidity. Among the six equations tested, the Penman equation had the best predictive ability for the dry bulb temperature range of 15–50 °C. At a fixed dry bulb temperature, an increase in the wet bulb depression increased the error. A new equation for the psychrometer constant was established by regression analysis. This equation can be computed by using a calculator. The average predictive error of relative humidity was <0.1% by this new equation. The measurement uncertainty of the relative humidity affected by the accuracy of dry and wet bulb temperature and the numeric values of measurement uncertainty were evaluated for various conditions. The uncertainty of wet bulb temperature was the main factor on the RH measurement uncertainty. |
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spelling | pubmed-53359932017-03-16 Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method Chen, Jiunyuan Chen, Chiachung Sensors (Basel) Article The most common and cheap indirect technique to measure relative humidity is by using psychrometer based on a dry and a wet temperature sensor. In this study, the measurement uncertainty of relative humidity was evaluated by this indirect method with some empirical equations for calculating relative humidity. Among the six equations tested, the Penman equation had the best predictive ability for the dry bulb temperature range of 15–50 °C. At a fixed dry bulb temperature, an increase in the wet bulb depression increased the error. A new equation for the psychrometer constant was established by regression analysis. This equation can be computed by using a calculator. The average predictive error of relative humidity was <0.1% by this new equation. The measurement uncertainty of the relative humidity affected by the accuracy of dry and wet bulb temperature and the numeric values of measurement uncertainty were evaluated for various conditions. The uncertainty of wet bulb temperature was the main factor on the RH measurement uncertainty. MDPI 2017-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5335993/ /pubmed/28216599 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17020368 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chen, Jiunyuan Chen, Chiachung Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method |
title | Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method |
title_full | Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method |
title_fullStr | Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method |
title_full_unstemmed | Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method |
title_short | Uncertainty Analysis in Humidity Measurements by the Psychrometer Method |
title_sort | uncertainty analysis in humidity measurements by the psychrometer method |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335993/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28216599 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17020368 |
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