EP4014028A1 - Measuring device for determining a dielectric constant - Google Patents
Measuring device for determining a dielectric constantInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a measuring device for determining a dielectric value of a filling material and a corresponding method for operating the measuring device.
- field devices are often used that are used to record and / or influence process variables.
- sensors are used that are used, for example, in level measuring devices, flow measuring devices, pressure and temperature measuring devices, pH redox potential measuring devices,
- Conductivity measuring devices etc. are used. They record the corresponding process variables, such as level, flow, pressure, temperature, pH value,
- Redox potential conductivity or the dielectric value.
- Many of these field devices are manufactured and sold by Endress + Hauser.
- dielectric value also known as "dielectric constant” or “relative permittivity”
- dielectric constant relative permittivity
- relative permittivity relative permittivity
- the capacitive measuring principle can be used to determine the dielectric value, especially in the case of liquid filling goods. This makes use of the effect that the capacitance of a capacitor changes proportionally with the dielectric value of the medium that is located between the two electrodes of the capacitor. With this measuring principle, the dielectric value is measured at low frequencies from a few kHz to the MHz range.
- Measuring devices using the methods described above usually have to be calibrated. This means additional work during production or during commissioning on site. Furthermore, these measurement methods generally require complex hardware in terms of circuitry so that the dielectric value can be determined with high resolution or over a wide measurement range. As the operating time increases, cyclical recalibration may also be necessary. A deterioration in the measurement accuracy of an overall system according to the measurement methods described above can also occur.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a measuring device which overcomes these disadvantages.
- the invention solves this problem with a measuring device for determining the dielectric value of a medium, which comprises the following components:
- a signal generation unit which is designed to generate an electrical high-frequency signal with a frequency varying within a frequency band, a first waveguide, with o a coupling element which is designed to couple the generated high-frequency signal into the first waveguide, and o a first end area, which is designed to reflect the high-frequency signal, o a first signal gate arranged opposite the first end area, via which the high-frequency signal can be coupled out into the medium, a second waveguide, with o a second end area which is for the high-frequency signal is designed to be reflective, o a second signal port arranged opposite the second end region, the second signal port being designed and arranged opposite the first signal port so that the high-frequency signal after passing through the medium via the second signal port into the second waveguide can be coupled in, and o ei nem decoupling element which is designed to decouple the high-frequency signal from the second waveguide, an electrically conductive arrangement which makes electrical contact between the two waveguides, and a signal evaluation unit connected at least to the decoupling element
- the measuring device uses the effect that a standing wave of the high-frequency signal is formed in or between the waveguides as a function of the dielectric value of the filling material and the frequency of the high-frequency signal. This is the transmission component and the
- the measuring device also offers the advantage that the signal evaluation unit can be implemented by means of a widespread and therefore cost-effective network analyzer chip.
- unit in the context of the invention is in principle understood to mean any electronic circuit that is designed to be suitable for the intended use. Depending on the requirements, it can be an analog circuit for
- Act generation or processing of corresponding analog signals can also be a digital circuit such as an FPGA or a storage medium in conjunction with a program.
- the program is designed to carry out the corresponding process steps or to use the necessary arithmetic operations of the respective unit.
- you can different electronic units of the level measuring device in the sense of the invention potentially also access a common physical memory or be operated by means of the same physical digital circuit.
- the formation of a standing wave in the waveguides can be favored if the first waveguide and the coupling-in element are designed such that the first waveguide has a higher impedance than the coupling-in element, or if the second waveguide and the coupling-out element are designed such that the second waveguide has a higher impedance than the decoupling element.
- the first waveguide and the coupling element are designed such that the first waveguide has an impedance that is at least 40%, in particular at least 20 ohms higher than the coupling element, or if the second Waveguide and the coupling-out element are designed such that the second waveguide has an impedance that is at least 40%, in particular at least 20 ohms higher than the coupling-out element.
- the power consumption of the measuring device can be optimized by designing the electrically conductive arrangement as a reflector for the high-frequency signal between the two waveguides, so that the coupling intensity of the high-frequency signal between the signal ports is increased. At the same time, this potentially improves the signal-to-noise ratio and increases the resolution of the dielectric value measurement.
- the reflector can be designed, for example, as an arrangement of metallic or metallized plates, the shape and alignment of any reflector plates possibly having to be adapted to the cross-sectional shape of the waveguides, for example the circular or rectangular shape.
- the number of reflector plates can be reduced to a single one if the first waveguide and / or the second waveguide following the first signal port or following the second signal port are / is bent in particular by 90 ° in such a way that the reflector is positioned roughly in the focus of the bends / bends. It is particularly useful here if the shape of the bend or bends for focusing is approximated to a parabolic course. As a result, the reflector area can in turn be reduced. By reducing the number of reflectors, access to the sample space for the medium to be measured between the waveguides is also simplified.
- the formation of the high-frequency signal is promoted if the first waveguide and the second waveguide are dimensioned and the signal ports are arranged at a defined distance from one another that the signal path length of the High-frequency signal between the two end regions corresponds approximately to half of the wavelength in air or vacuum that corresponds to the upper limit frequency of the frequency band, or an integral multiple of this wavelength, such as two or three times.
- the coupling element is arranged at a maximum distance from the first end region that corresponds to approximately five quarters of the wavelength in air or vacuum that corresponds to the upper limit frequency of the frequency band, or if the coupling-out element is arranged at a maximum distance from the second end region that corresponds to five quarters of the wavelength in air or vacuum that corresponds to the upper limit frequency of the frequency band.
- This can increase the sensitivity of the DK measurement.
- the waveguides are not prescribed how the waveguides are to be designed.
- the first waveguide and / or the second waveguide can be designed as a waveguide.
- the waveguides have, for example, a circular or a rectangular cross section.
- a rectangular cross section is advantageous insofar as the waveguide can be manufactured more easily and the mode in which the high-frequency signal propagates in the waveguides can be set more individually.
- the waveguide is designed as a waveguide, it can also be filled with a dielectric ceramic, glass or plastic filling, in particular HDPE, PP or PTFE, instead of air or vacuum. On the one hand, this offers the advantage that the waveguides can be made more compact overall.
- the signal gates that prevent the medium from penetrating the waveguide do not have to be implemented separately in this case. Rather, in this case they are formed directly by the final plastic filling. In the event that the waveguide is not completely filled with a plastic, it is again conceivable to manufacture the signal gates from one of the plastics mentioned above or from a glass.
- the signal generation unit can be used as Network analyzer chip can be realized.
- the object on which the invention is based is achieved by a method for determining the dielectric value by means of the Measuring device solved according to one of the variants described above.
- This procedure comprises the following procedural steps:
- Reflection minimum or based on the frequency of the transmission maximum, and / or
- the absolute dielectric value can be determined according to:
- a phase shift of the high-frequency signal between the coupling-in element and the coupling-out element can also be determined.
- the measurement of the phase shift represents a further possibility for determining the real part of the dielectric value of the medium.
- An additional expansion of the method according to the invention can be achieved by determining a quality of the measuring device based on the reflection minimum, in particular based on the reflection component at the location of the reflection minimum, based on a width and / or on the basis of a slope of the reflection minimum.
- conclusions can be drawn about the operating state of the measuring device.
- a reduced quality can, for example, represent an indication of the formation of deposits between the waveguides or the failure of electronic components of the field device.
- a quality recorded over the measuring cycles can also be used to predict when the quality will fall below a predefined minimum value, so that maintenance of the measuring device can be initiated at an early stage based on this. This procedure is also known under the term “Predictive Mainienance”.
- a measuring device for measuring the dielectric value of a medium in a container
- Fig. 2 a detailed view of the measuring device
- FIG. 3 shows a detailed view of a coupling-in element or coupling-out element in the measuring device
- a schematic arrangement of the measuring device 1 on a container 3 with a medium 2 is shown in Fig. 1:
- the measuring device 1 is laterally on a connection of the container 2, For example. Arranged in a flange connection.
- the measuring device 1 is attached approximately positively to the inner wall of the container, with two waveguides 11, 12 of the measuring device 1 partially protruding into the container 3, so that medium 2 is between the waveguides 11,
- the medium 2 can be liquids such as beverages, paints, cement or fuels such as liquid gases or mineral oils.
- the measuring device 1 it is also conceivable to use the measuring device 1 with bulk material-shaped media 2, such as, for example, grain.
- the measuring device 1 can be connected to a higher-level unit 4, for example a process control system.
- a process control system for example a process control system.
- PROFIBUS "HART”, “Wireless HART” or “Ethernet” can be implemented as the interface.
- the dielectric value DK can be transmitted via this as an amount or as a complex value with real part and imaginary part. However, other information about the general operating state of the measuring device 1 can also be communicated.
- the structural design of the measuring device 1 according to the invention is shown in detail in FIG. 2:
- the measuring device 1 is basically based on two waveguides 11, 12, each of which includes a signal port 113, 122 at one of their ends.
- the waveguides 11, 12 are arranged such that the two signal ports 113, 122 are defined in one Distance d are opposite.
- the sample space for the medium 2, whose dielectric value DK is to be determined, is thus formed between the signal gates 113, 122.
- the waveguides 11, 12 are designed as waveguides with a rectangular cross section.
- a high-frequency signal SHF is coupled into the first waveguide 11 laterally via a coupling element 111.
- the signal gates 113, 122 are designed to be transparent for the high-frequency signal SHF.
- the two waveguides 11, 12 are in electrical contact with one another via an electrically conductive reflector 13. If the waveguides 11, 12 are filled with a plastic filling, in particular HDPE, PP or PTFE, the signal gates 113, 122 no longer need to be implemented separately in this case, since the plastic fillings allow the medium 2 to penetrate the waveguide 11, 12 and at the same time ensure that the high-frequency signal SHF is sufficiently coupled out and coupled in.
- a plastic filling in particular HDPE, PP or PTFE
- high-frequency signal SHF is decoupled through the first signal port 113 of the first waveguide 11 into the sample space, then passed through the medium 2 (not shown in FIG. 2) and finally coupled into the second waveguide 12 via the second signal port 122.
- a coupling-out element 123 is arranged laterally on the second waveguide 12, via which the transmitted portion of the high-frequency signal SHF can be coupled out.
- the two waveguides 11, 12 are bent by 90 ° following the respective signal port 113, 122.
- the shape of the bends approximates a parabolic course in such a way that the reflector 13 lies approximately in the focal point of the parabolas.
- the reflector 13 not only makes electrical contact with the waveguides 11, 12.
- the transmission THF of the high-frequency signal SHF between the signal ports 113, 122 is also increased. As indicated in FIG.
- the reflector 13 in the embodiment shown there lies in a plane with a corresponding wall 14 of the measuring device 1, which separates the interior of the container 3 from the exterior of the container or from the interior of the measuring device 1 when installed .
- the waveguides 11, 12 each include an end region 112, 121 which is designed to be reflective for the high-frequency signal SHF.
- the end regions 111, 121 can be designed, for example, as a metallized wall, analogously to the reflector 13.
- the length L of the two waveguides 11, 12 (in each case starting from the end region 112, 121 to the signal port 113, 122) in total plus the distance d between the signal ports 113, 122 is ideally to be designed according to half the wavelength ⁇ HF of the high-frequency signal SHF, or an integral multiple thereof (in this context it is not necessary that the two waveguides 11, 12 are of the same length).
- the high-frequency signal SHF is formed between the end regions 112, 121 as a function of the frequency fHF of the high-frequency signal SHF and as a function of the
- Dielectric value DK of the medium 2 as a standing wave is reinforced when the coupling element 111 and the decoupling element 123, as shown in FIG. 2, as close as possible (optimally at a maximum distance of five quarters of the wavelength ⁇ HF of the high-frequency signal SHF) to the respective reflective end region 112, 121 are arranged.
- the coupling-in element 111 and the coupling-out element 123 are arranged as close as possible to the respective end region, they can, as shown in FIG. 3, also be arranged at the end region 112, 121 of the respective waveguide 11, 12, in contrast to a lateral arrangement .
- the elements 111, 123 are designed to be angled by 90 ° so that the high-frequency signal SHF is again transmitted in the direction of the first waveguide 11 or is received from the direction of the second waveguide 12.
- the waveguides 11, 12 and the coupling-in / coupling-out elements 111, 123 are designed such that the waveguides 11, 12 have a higher impedance than have the coupling-in element 111 and the coupling-out element 123.
- the impedance difference here is expediently at least 40% or 20 ohms.
- the coupling-in element 111 and the coupling-out element 123 can each be designed as a pin, their length being matched to the frequency range fi-f2 of the high-frequency signal SHF.
- the pins 11, 123 or to design the waveguides 11, 12 such that the high-frequency signal SHF propagates, for example, in the TE31 mode or the H20 mode.
- the structure of the measuring device 1 described above has the overall effect of the invention that the absorption component AHF and the reflection component RHF (and thus also the transmission component THF) of the high-frequency signal SHF between the coupling-in element 111 and the coupling-out element 123 are highly dependent on the Frequency fHF of the high frequency signal SHF are.
- the frequency-dependent transmission / reflection of the high-frequency signal SHF can be seen from the graph shown in FIG. 4: There, the transmission component THF and the reflection component RHF of the high-frequency signal SHF between the coupling-in element 111 and the decoupling Element 123 shown as a function of the frequency f HF .
- the frequency band h - f f of the high frequency signal extends
- RHF detect the reflection minimum and in turn calculate the real part Re DK of the dielectric value DK of the medium 2 on the basis of the corresponding frequency i.
- the signal evaluation unit can again determine the imaginary part Irri DK on the basis of the transmission component THF at the frequency i of the reflection minimum.
- the signal evaluation unit can determine the real part Re DK of the dielectric value DK of the medium 2 on the basis of the frequency of the transmission maximum.
- the imaginary part Irri DK can in turn using the
- Transmission component THF can be determined at the frequency of the transmission maximum.
- the signal evaluation unit can be based, for example, on a network analyzer chip that is connected to the coupling-out element 123 and the coupling-in element 111.
- the high-frequency signal SHF can be generated at the coupling element 111 by means of a corresponding signal generation unit.
- the signal generation unit can, for example, run on a voltage-controlled oscillator (in Also known as “Voltage Controlled Oscillator”), the frequency fi HF of which is controlled by means of a phase locked loop (“Phase Locked Loop”) so that the signal generation unit generates the high-frequency signal SHF within the desired frequency band fi - h, for example with a sawtooth Frequency change generated.
- a voltage-controlled oscillator in Also known as “Voltage Controlled Oscillator”
- Phase Locked Loop Phase Locked Loop
- This function can also be taken over by the network analyzer chip, depending on its design.
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