CN110726681A - Integrated optical fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH value - Google Patents

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CN110726681A
CN110726681A CN201911032871.0A CN201911032871A CN110726681A CN 110726681 A CN110726681 A CN 110726681A CN 201911032871 A CN201911032871 A CN 201911032871A CN 110726681 A CN110726681 A CN 110726681A
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The invention belongs to the technical field of sensors, and particularly relates to an integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH values. The device solves the problems of complex procedure, low signal precision and the like existing in the prior art of independently measuring the soil temperature, the soil humidity and the soil pH value, and comprises a temperature detection unit, a humidity detection unit and a pH detection unit which are arranged on a sensing unit; the sensing unit is a fiber Bragg grating; the temperature detection unit is a first section of fiber Bragg grating; the humidity detection unit is a polymer layer which is wrapped on the second section of fiber Bragg grating and is sensitive to moisture and a nanometer material layer which is wrapped on the polymer layer which is sensitive to moisture; the pH detection unit comprises a hydrogel layer which is wrapped on the third section of fiber Bragg grating and is sensitive to the pH value and a nanometer material layer which is wrapped on the hydrogel layer which is sensitive to the pH value. The real-time detection of the temperature, the moisture and the pH value of the soil can be realized simultaneously by inserting the sensing unit into the soil.

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Integrated optical fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH value
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of sensors, and particularly relates to an integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH values.
Background
With the rapid development of the industrialization process and the large-scale use of pesticides, the soil pollution is more and more serious; the soil quality of the soil largely determines the quality of the agricultural product growth. In order to improve soil quality, the detection of main parameters of soil is a necessary technical means. Mainly comprises the detection of temperature, humidity and pH value. The existing soil temperature, humidity and pH are mostly measured separately by adopting temperature, humidity and pH electric sensors respectively, and the method has the following defects:
1) independent measurement and management, complex procedure; 2) independently inserting sensing equipment for multiple times, and influencing the state of soil around the plant; 3) if multi-point detection is to be realized, a plurality of sensing points are required to be arranged, and power supply and signal transmission become more complex; 4) the electric sensor is easily interfered by external electromagnetic field, is easily corroded, and has limited service life (generally not more than 3 years). 5) The uniformity of position and time cannot be guaranteed through independent measurement, and meanwhile, the measured values of humidity and pH value are influenced by the change of temperature measured value, and the influence of temperature on other two measured values needs to be considered.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems existing in the prior art of independently measuring the temperature, the humidity and the pH value of soil, the invention provides an integrated optical fiber sensor capable of simultaneously detecting the temperature, the moisture and the pH value, which can simultaneously detect three parameters of the temperature, the humidity and the pH value, detect the humidity and the pH value at the same temperature and eliminate the influence of the temperature on the humidity and the pH value.
The invention provides an integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH value, which comprises a sensing unit and is characterized in that: the device also comprises a temperature detection unit, a humidity detection unit and a pH detection unit which are arranged on the sensing unit;
the sensing unit is a fiber Bragg grating; dividing the fiber Bragg grating into three sections, namely a first section of fiber Bragg grating, a second section of fiber Bragg grating and a third section of fiber Bragg grating;
the temperature detection unit is a first section of fiber Bragg grating;
the humidity detection unit is a polymer which is sensitive to moisture and wrapped on the second section of fiber Bragg grating and a nanometer material layer wrapped on the polymer layer which is sensitive to moisture;
the pH detection unit comprises hydrogel which is sensitive to the pH value and wrapped on the third section of fiber Bragg grating and a nanometer material layer which is wrapped on the hydrogel layer which is sensitive to the pH value.
Further, in order to increase the sensitivity of the temperature detection unit to temperature, the temperature detection unit further comprises a temperature-sensitizing nanomaterial layer wrapped on the first section of fiber bragg grating.
Further, the temperature sensitizing material is a carbon nanotube material.
Further, the polymer sensitive to moisture is PMMA, PVC or silica gel material; the nano material is ferroferric oxide, a carbon nano tube or graphene.
Further, the total layer thickness of the polymer layer sensitive to moisture and the nanometer material layer is 10um to 50 um.
Further, the hydrogel sensitive to pH is polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid or polyacrylamide.
Further, the total thickness of the hydrogel layer sensitive to the pH value and the nanometer material is 10um-50 um.
Furthermore, the lengths of the first section of fiber bragg grating, the second section of fiber bragg grating and the third section of fiber bragg grating are equal.
The invention also provides another integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value, which is characterized in that: the integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value comprises a reticular metal pipe and the integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor which is positioned in the reticular metal pipe and is used for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value.
The invention also provides another integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value, which comprises a plurality of integrated fiber Bragg grating sensors for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value, which are connected in series through optical fibers.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the invention selects the fiber Bragg grating as the sensing unit, one grating is provided with three adjacent detection units which are respectively used for monitoring the temperature, the humidity and the pH value in real time, the sensing unit is reliably packaged (packaged by a reticular metal tube) and inserted into the soil, the real-time detection of the temperature, the moisture and the pH value of the soil can be realized at the same time, the detection process is simple and convenient, the measurement of three groups of parameters can be realized by inserting once, and the service life of the fiber sensor is long.
2. The invention takes the simultaneously detected temperature data as the temperature reference for detecting the humidity and the pH value, eliminates the influence of the change of the temperature measured value on the measured values of the humidity and the pH value, and improves the detection precision of the humidity and the pH value.
3. According to the invention, a plurality of sensors are connected in series, so that the temperature, the humidity and the pH value of a plurality of positions can be detected.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH values in a first embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH in the second embodiment of the present invention.
The reference numbers in the figures are: 1-a temperature detection unit, 2-a humidity detection unit, 3-a pH detection unit and 4-an integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor;
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The invention selects the fiber Bragg grating as a sensing unit, three adjacent detection units are arranged on one fiber Bragg grating, one section of the fiber Bragg grating is used for detecting the soil temperature in real time, the other section of the fiber Bragg grating is used for realizing the real-time measurement of moisture by coating a polymer material sensitive to moisture, the last section of the fiber Bragg grating is used for realizing the real-time detection of the pH value by coating hydrogel sensitive to the pH value, the lengths of the three sections of the fiber Bragg gratings can be equal, and the specific length can also be set according to the actual requirement. By reliably packaging the sensing unit, such as packaging by using a mesh metal pipe, the sensing unit can be inserted into soil to simultaneously realize real-time detection of the temperature, the moisture and the pH value of the soil.
The invention is further described with reference to the following figures and specific embodiments.
Example one
As can be seen from fig. 1, the integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH value in this embodiment includes a sensing unit formed by a fiber bragg grating, and a temperature detecting unit 1, a humidity detecting unit 2 and a pH detecting unit 3 sequentially disposed on the fiber bragg grating; the fiber bragg gratings may each be divided into three segments. The first section may be a bare grating for detecting temperature, and may also be coated with a temperature-sensitizing material, such as carbon nanotubes, to improve the temperature sensitivity of the section. Coating a moisture-sensitive polymer material on the second section for detecting humidity, wherein the moisture-sensitive polymer material comprises PMMA, PVC or silicon rubber; in order to further improve the humidity detection capability, a nano material, such as ferroferric oxide, a nanotube or graphene, may be sprayed on the surface of the polymer layer sensitive to moisture, and the total thickness of the polymer layer sensitive to moisture and the nano material layer in this embodiment is 10um to 50um, and in other embodiments, may be a value within a range of 10um to 50 um. And the third section is coated with a pH-sensitive hydrogel which can be polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid or polyacrylamide to realize pH value detection.
The thickness of the hydrogel layer and the nano material layer can also be within the range of 10um to 50 um.
According to the sensor, three wavelength peak values can be split during detection due to the difference of three coating materials, a broadband light source emitted by a demodulator is reflected back after passing through a sensing head, the simultaneous detection of temperature, humidity and pH value can be realized by detecting the drift of the three wavelength peak values, and the wave peak for temperature detection is used as the temperature reference for detecting the humidity and the pH value.
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As shown in fig. 2, the integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting temperature, humidity and pH in this embodiment includes n sensors connected in series through a connecting fiber, so as to detect the temperature, humidity and pH at multiple positions, and the sensors may be wavelength division multiplexed by using a wavelength division multiplexing technique, and the wavelengths of light reflected from the sensing heads 1 to n are input to a demodulator for processing.

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1. The utility model provides an integral type optic fibre bragg grating sensor for humiture, pH value detect, includes sensing element, its characterized in that: the device also comprises a temperature detection unit, a humidity detection unit and a pH detection unit which are arranged on the sensing unit;
the sensing unit is a fiber Bragg grating; dividing the fiber Bragg grating into three sections, namely a first section of fiber Bragg grating, a second section of fiber Bragg grating and a third section of fiber Bragg grating;
the temperature detection unit is a first section of fiber Bragg grating;
the humidity detection unit is a polymer layer which is wrapped on the second section of fiber Bragg grating and sensitive to moisture and a nanometer material layer which is wrapped on the polymer layer sensitive to moisture;
the pH detection unit comprises a hydrogel layer which is wrapped on the third section of fiber Bragg grating and sensitive to the pH value and a nanometer material layer which is wrapped on the hydrogel layer sensitive to the pH value.
2. The integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value according to claim 1, wherein: the temperature detection unit also comprises a temperature sensitivity enhancing material layer wrapped on the first section of fiber Bragg grating.
3. The integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the temperature sensitizing material is a carbon nano tube.
4. The integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value as claimed in claim 3, wherein: the polymer sensitive to moisture is PMMA, PVC or silicon rubber material; the nano material is ferroferric oxide, a carbon nano tube or graphene.
5. The integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for temperature, humidity and pH detection according to claim 4, wherein: the total layer thickness of the moisture sensitive polymer layer and the nanomaterial layer is 10-50 um.
6. The integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for temperature, humidity and pH detection according to claim 5, wherein: the hydrogel sensitive to the pH value is polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid or polyacrylamide.
7. The integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for temperature, humidity and pH detection according to claim 6, wherein: the thickness of the hydrogel layer sensitive to the pH value and the nanometer material layer is 10-50 um.
8. The integrated fiber bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value according to claim 7, wherein: the lengths of the first section of fiber Bragg grating, the second section of fiber Bragg grating and the third section of fiber Bragg grating are equal.
9. The utility model provides an integral type optic fibre bragg grating sensor for humiture, pH value detect which characterized in that: the integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value comprises a reticular metal pipe and the integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor which is positioned in the reticular metal pipe and used for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value according to any one of claims 1 to 8.
10. The utility model provides an integral type optic fibre bragg grating sensor for humiture, pH value detect which characterized in that: the integrated fiber Bragg grating sensor for temperature, humidity and pH detection comprises n integrated fiber Bragg grating sensors which are connected in series through optical fibers and used for detecting the temperature, the humidity and the pH value, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2.
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