A low-cost noncontact capacitance-type level transducer for a conducting liquid

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 778-786

  Bera, Satish Chandra ^a   Ray, Jayanta Kumar ^a   Chattopadhyay, Subrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Cylindrical capacitor; Error capacitance; Glass tube level sensors; High density polyethylene (HDPE) tube level sensors; Liquid level measurement; Modified De' Sauty bridge; Noncontact capacitive level sensor

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC INSULATION TESTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCERS;

CYLINDRICAL CAPACITOR; ERROR CAPACITANCE; GLASS TUBE LEVEL SENSORS; HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE TUBE LEVEL SENSORS; LIQUID LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MODIFIED DE' SAUTY BRIDGE;

DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY;

EID: 33744544474     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.873785     Document Type: Article

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