Low Pressure Measurement

How big the plant? Watch the airpressure gauge. It shifts more than that when a bird passes over.

Hi msn,

Are you sure of your units?

By my conversion app. it equates to "about" three ten thousandths of a millimeter of mercury!!!!

John

...or 4μm of water or 4 picometres of air. Take the reciprocal: the atmosphere isn't 2.5e⁸m thick!

The requirement is unachievable; the variation of ambient pressure during the course of a day varies by a factor of 10⁴ to 10⁵ of that amount.

Yes I am quite sure about unit of measurement. Even we are bit surprised looking at the application. We are trying to explore the methods to suit application.

The requirement is unachievable. Therefore the application is nonsense.

What are you smoking (or drinking)?

Maybe this is the desired resolution of the instrument? Not the range...

OTOH, the heading does read "Low Pressure Measurement." I can only assume from this and the figure cited, that 0.0004 mbarg is either the typical pressure the OP needs to measure or the sensor's full-scale range.

Perhaps if the OP was a little more forthcoming...?

Were you speaking instead of sound pressure level (SPL), 0.0004 mbarg corresponds roughly to an (RMS) SPL of about 66 decibels - about the same SPL as a loud conversation or driving at highway speeds with the car windows rolled down.

Now, even if you had this sensor, what's to stop the ambient noise level in your coke-oven plant from completely swamping your pressure measurements, possibly even pegging the sensor at the limit of its range? Do we assume 0.0004 mbarg is full-scale? If so, you would probably be measuring even smaller values in the normal course of whatever process you need this sensor for, no? Whatever it is, you'd better put it in a nice quiet sound booth or your measurements will be garbage.

Ridiculous!

Not possible and completely unnecessary.

Why would anyone need such a minute pressure variation indication in a coke plant, even if it were sound pressure?

Whatever the OP wants this for, I hope it's not part of some process control loop. Plant noise aside, let's say a thunderstorm rolls into the area. A big thunderclap and that loop will go apeshit.

Ordinary garden-variety microphones routinely deal with far greater pressure swings, albeit at audio frequencies, but audible frequencies aren't the only game in town, especially at an industrial plant. Lots of low frequencies too. Infrasound. Might also need to isolate the sensor from vibration.

Let's say the OP averages the sensor readings to help filter out the acoustic component. That's all well and good but it isn't going to help much if the sensor is routinely pegged by high acoustic levels.

Somebody hasn't thought this through.

Looks like "we" will be not successful.

What coke requires this fine measurement? Is this a miniature coal power plant with a self driven CO2 sequestration?

I can hear a yes . . . damn pipe dreams . .

If, in the very highly unlikely event that Andrew Westman is correct about the real purpose of your request, here's what you will need.

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Even for the US this sounds nonsensical.

They make nice stuff.

Even if it were what the OP thinks they need, the price will quickly change their mind.

I was involved in active noise cancellation in the 90's. I'm sure the price has skyrocketed since then.

Yep.

I was working a contract at TI for a few years near Houston. Running along the length of the building in which I worked was a very large, very long HVAC duct which terminated at a big plenum just on the other side of the wall near my desk. The thing acted like a giant organ pipe, but at infrasound frequencies.

There was a 'node' right where I sat at my desk. In the next cube over it wasn't especially noticeable, but right at my desk it was. I couldn't hear it so much as feel it but it drove me bonkers. Citing the problem I asked to move to a different desk. They sent a guy over from Maintenance; he couldn't hear it. Nobody else could either, but I could. They thought I was nuts.

To convince them the phenom was real I brought in a geophone that I happened to have, set it on my desk, and hooked it up to an oscilloscope. There it was, a big fat sine wave at about 12 Hz. Moved it to the next cube over and you could still see it but the amplitude was much smaller. Not only, but when the blower shut off the signal disappeared. Organ pipe.

I got my new desk.

Might want to throw this in the mix for the OP as well. B&K's infrasound mic cartridge.

Sensitivity: 50 mV/Pa

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I spent 25 years in that industry and never had occasion to read pressures measured at that accuracy. What is the measurement being used for?

are you sure it is mbar not Mbar?

Good point. A far more reasonable figure for a pressure sensor, to be sure, but why then would the OP frame it as a tiny fraction of a very large unit? 0.0004 Mbarg? Why not just say 400 barg? A question for the OP.

Yes, exactly. Was it a typo on the drawing/specs, or did the OP not bother to hit the shift key and why bar anyway? Isn't the world using SI units? It seems to me that a more reasonable pressure to measure is just 0.0004 bar as in gas line pressure in cm of water. An explanation of the application would help. Jim

You say: "We are working for a Coke Oven plant."

Who is "we"?

Perhaps you can induce one of your associates to communicate the requirements for you?

Mistakes in units of measurement in posted questions are far more common, hence the large number of requests for clarification.

What you are basically asking for is instrumentation that can accurately measure medium level vacuum, so something like a McLeod gauge, or some other form of thermal or capacitive gauge.

McLeod gauge

Try a search of CR4's Globalspec site for US vacuum gauge suppliers or similar.

Let us know what you actually find that works. As others have said the measured value seems unbelievably low for the application.

Its a bit fresh and probably not made into a sensor, but this is what you are looking for.

My take on it is that the units are wildly incorrect.

0.004 bar (4 mbar) is 1.6 in H2O or 40.8 mm H2O, measured with a draft range transmitter

0.0004 bar (0.4mbar) is 0.16 in H2O or 4.08 mm H2O still measurable with a high end draft range pressure transmitter