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Ionic Liquid Based Coulometric Trace Humidity Sensors

Authors:
Marc Detjens
Carlo Tiebe
Ulrich Banach
Uwe Ritter

Keywords: Coulometric sensors; Sensor coating; Trace humidity measurement; Ionic liquids

Abstract:
This work presents a first attempt to use ionic liquids as a new coating for planar coulometric sensors. These sensors are used for the measurement of trace humidity in various gases. Usually, the coating of the sensors is tetraphosphorus decaoxide and its hydrolysis products. Instead, a hygroscopic ionic liquid was used as sensor coating in this work. Generated frost point temperatures tf in the gas ranged from 80 °C to 30 °C, which is equivalent to vapour mole fractions xv from 0.5 μmol·mol-1 to 376 μmol·mol-1. In addition to the coulometric sensors, the generated humidity is determined by a precision dew point hygrometer as reference. First results show that it is possible to measure humidity with ionic liquid based coulometric sensors.

Pages: 13 to 14

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: March 25, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-836X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-621-7

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 25, 2018 to March 29, 2018