Carbon dioxide sensor

Carbon dioxide sensor

A carbon dioxide sensor or CO2 sensor is an instrument for the measurement of carbon dioxide gas. The most common principles for CO2 sensors are infrared gas sensors (NDIR) and chemical gas sensors.

Nondispersive Infrared (NDIR) CO2 Sensors

NDIR sensors are the simplest of the spectroscopic sensors.Fact|date=February 2007 The key components are an infrared source, a light tube, an interference (wavelength) filter, and an infrared detector. The gas is pumped or diffuses into the light tube, and the electronics measures the absorption of the characteristic wavelength of light. NDIR sensors are most often used for measuring carbon dioxide.Carbonate Based CO2 Sensors with High Performance, Th. Lang, H.-D. Wiemhöfer and W. Göpel, Conf.Proc.Eurosensors IX, Stockholm (S) (1995); Sensors and Actuators B, 34, 1996, 383-387.] The best of these have sensitivities of 20-50 PPM. Typical NDIR sensors are still in the (US) $100 to $1000 range. Most are used for carbon dioxide, because no other sensing method works reliably for this gas. New developments include using MEMS to bring down the costs of this sensor and to create smaller devices (for example for use in air conditioning applications).

Chemical CO2 Sensors

Chemical CO2 gas sensors with sensitive layers based on polymer- or heteropolysiloxane have the principal advantage of a very low energy consumption and can be reduced in size to fit into microelectronic-based systems. On the downside, short- and long term drift effects as well as a rather low overall lifetime are major obstacles when compared with the NDIR measurement principleReliable CO2 Sensors Based with Silicon-based Polymers on Quartz Microbalance Transducers, R. Zhou, S. Vaihinger, K.E. Geckeler and W. Göpel, Conf.Proc.Eurosensors VII, Budapest (H) (1993); Sensors and Actuators B, 18-19, 1994, 415-420.] .

Applications

Since the danger of fires comes mostly from its quickly spreading CO2 output, these sensors can be used to detect fire and certain other air related problems safely without false alarm. [ [http://www.senseair.se/Datablad/what_is_co2_dcv.pdf What is CO2?] ]

ee also

*List of sensors

References


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