KR20170040689A - Non Powered Gas Sensor - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to a gas sensor, and more particularly, to a gas sensor capable of sucking a gas without any additional power to enable identification and identification of the presence of harmful substances contained in the gas.
Unexpected leakage of harmful substances into the atmosphere in an industrial environment can lead to various safety accidents such as human accidents.
Depending on the kind of harmful substances, the effect on the human body may be different, and in some cases, it may seriously affect the human body in a very short time. Therefore, it is necessary to quickly detect the type and concentration of harmful substances contained in the air and take appropriate countermeasures.
Various sensor systems for detecting harmful substances in gas have been studied.
According to the prior art, there is a sensor system system which measures the change of electrical / chemical reaction with the surface of a sensor after the gas is transmitted to the inside of the sensor by using a power such as a pump for a predetermined time, And the response of the sensor to the sensor is measured.
However, according to the sensor system according to the related art, high power is used by using a pump or the like for guiding the gas to the inside of the sensor. In the method of detecting the gas by placing the sensor itself in the air, Since it is not easily induced in the human body, it takes less time to analyze harmful substances.
Therefore, it is difficult to suitably use in an industrial field where immediate measures are required when harmful gas is leaked.
In addition, the sensor system according to the prior art requires a lot of additional components such as a pump, and is complicated in configuration and large in size, so that it is limited to be universally used over the entire area of an industrial site.
Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a non-powered gas sensor which is capable of analyzing harmful substances in a gas by sucking gas without any separate power means, The purpose.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a plasma processing apparatus including a chamber having an internal space formed thereon, a channel opened to allow gas to flow into the chamber, And an electric circuit including the adsorption member as a resistor, wherein the adsorption member is disposed in the vicinity of the inlet of the adsorption member so that the harmful substance contained in the gas adheres to the adsorption member, There is provided a gas sensor for sensing a change in resistance and sensing the harmful substance.
According to one embodiment, the gas flows into the chamber through the channel with a diffusion action.
According to one embodiment, the adsorption member and the channel are formed to face each other, and the adsorption member extends parallel to the longitudinal direction of the channel.
According to one embodiment, the adsorption member is formed by densely arranging a plurality of adsorption columns spaced apart from each other.
According to one embodiment, the gas sensor includes a plurality of adsorption members and a plurality of channels, and one or more adsorption members are formed correspondingly for each channel.
According to one embodiment, the plurality of adsorption columns forming one adsorption member include adsorption columns having different lengths.
According to one embodiment, the length of the longest adsorption column among the plurality of adsorption columns forming one adsorption member is different for each of the plurality of adsorption members.
According to one embodiment, the plurality of adsorption columns forming one adsorption member include adsorption columns having different cross-sectional areas.
According to an embodiment, the plurality of channels include channels having different cross-sectional areas.
According to one embodiment, the gas sensor includes a conductive surface formed in the chamber, and a conductor formed outside the chamber and electrically connected to the conductive surface, wherein the adsorption member is formed on the conductive surface , The electric circuit comprises the conductive surface, the adsorption member and the conductor.
According to one embodiment, the conductive surface is formed by a conductive substrate attached on one side of the chamber.
According to one embodiment, the conductive surface is formed by penetrating conductive ions on one side of the chamber.
According to one embodiment, the adsorption member is formed of an activated nano-carbon material having conductivity capable of being hetero-bonded to the conductive surface.
According to one embodiment, the adsorption member is transferred onto the conductive surface in a grown or grown state on the conductive surface.
The adsorbing member is formed of a conductive nanomaterial that is transferred on the conductive surface in a grown or grown state on the conductive surface.
According to one embodiment, the adsorptive member is formed of an activated nanocarbon material capable of being heterojunction to the conductive surface.
According to one embodiment, the gas sensor estimates the kind of the harmful substance by comparing the resistance change library of the electric circuit experimentally obtained with respect to the hazardous substance with the actually sensed resistance change.
According to one embodiment, the resistance-change library includes information on a resistance change of the electric circuit when gas containing two or more kinds of harmful substances is introduced into the chamber.
According to one embodiment, the electric circuit is configured such that a resistance change is measured for each of the plurality of adsorption members.
1 is a perspective view conceptually showing a gas sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of the gas sensor of Fig. 1 in side view.
Figure 3 shows the back side of the gas sensor of Figure 1;
4 is a view showing a state where harmful substances are introduced into a chamber of a gas sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 shows a process in which different kinds of harmful substances are introduced into a gas sensor and detected.
Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of one adsorption member of Fig. 1;
7 is a graph exemplarily showing a result of detection of a gas containing a certain kind of harmful substances at a specific concentration through a gas sensor.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, it is to be understood that the technical idea of the present invention and its essential structure and action are not limited by this embodiment.
1 is a conceptual perspective view of a
As shown in FIG. 1, the
According to the present embodiment, the
A
According to the present embodiment, the
The inner space of the
In the
The plurality of
The plurality of
A through
In FIG. 1, the
A groove is formed in the
The channel may be formed simultaneously with the
Referring to FIG. 1, in the inner space of the
Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of the
As shown in FIG. 2, the
According to the present embodiment, the cross-sectional area of the
2, a
The
More specifically, after the shape of the
Although not shown in detail, the
When the
According to this embodiment, the
The CNTs forming the
2, a
When the
Fig. 3 shows the back surface of the
3, a
The
3, when the portion of the
On the other hand, when conductive portions of the
Each of the plurality of
According to this configuration, the adsorbing
When a change in the resistance of the electric circuit occurs when the gas is introduced into the
Although the electric circuit is not described in detail, when a plurality of
FIG. 4 shows a state in which harmful substances are introduced into the
According to this embodiment, if harmful substances are discharged into the air in the industrial field, a concentration difference is generated in the inside and the outside of the
Naturally, the concentration of the outside of the
According to the present embodiment, the cross-sectional area of each
The harmful substances flowing into the
Since the length of each
The harmful substance M that has exited from the one channel 110-1 and flows into the
That is, the harmful substance M that has exited the one channel 110-1 moves toward the corresponding adsorption member 220-1 formed below the adsorption member 220-1, and contacts the adsorption member 220-1.
Similarly, the harmful substance M that has escaped from the second channel 110-2 by diffusion diffuses toward the second adsorption member 220-2 corresponding thereto, and diffuses from the n-th channel 110-n The noxious substances M that have escaped by the n-th adsorption member 220-n move toward the n-th adsorption member 220-n corresponding thereto.
When the harmful substance M adheres to the
The harmful substance M which is an organic compound is adhered to the adsorbing
As described above, when the electric circuit is configured to measure the change in resistance for each of the plurality of adsorption members, it is possible to detect the adsorption state of the harmful substances M to the
The sampling rate S of the harmful substance M of the
[Equation 1]
Where A 1 is the sum of the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of
The sampling rate of the
According to the present embodiment, the
5 shows a process in which different kinds of harmful substances M are introduced into the
According to the present embodiment, one
According to the gas law, different kinds of harmful substances M are diffused at different rates even if they enter the
Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5, the harmful substance A having excellent diffusivity comes out most quickly from the
The toxic substance A that escapes the fastest in the
Since the upper part of the
Similarly, the harmful substance (C) that is the latest to exit the
As described above, by diversifying the height of the plurality of adsorption columns forming one adsorption member, it is possible to adsorb and detect harmful substances without missing. That is, although the harmful substances (B, C) are included in the gas in addition to the harmful substances (A) having the fastest diffusion speed, the spaces in which the harmful substances (B, C) It is possible to avoid escaping from the
In addition, the sensitivity of the
Although only three adsorption columns are shown in FIG. 5 as forming one adsorption member, it should be understood that this is for convenience of explanation.
Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of one
As shown in FIG. 6, since carbon nanotubes can be grown to have a thickness of several nanometers, tens of thousands of adsorption columns can be formed under one channel having a sectional area of several millimeters.
In order to increase the sensitivity of the
On the other hand, even if the same harmful substance (M) is used, the kind of the harmful substance (M) can be distinguished by using the characteristic that the time taken to adsorbed column is slightly different depending on the length of the adsorption column.
For example, the length of the longest adsorption column among the adsorption columns forming the
According to such a configuration, it becomes possible to identify different kinds of harmful substances.
FIG. 7 is a graph exemplarily showing a result of detection of a gas containing one harmful substance at a specific concentration through the
For example, when only the harmful substance A is detected by using the
7 is a result of the resistance change of the electric circuit indicating the case where the harmful substance A is included in the gas at the concentration.
Likewise, the results of the resistance change of the electric circuit as shown in Fig. 7 can be obtained also for the gas containing the harmful substance (A) and other harmful substances alone or the gas containing two or more kinds of harmful substances. Each resistance change result can be used as a kind of fingerprint indicating the corresponding component depending on the concentration, kind, and combination of the harmful substance.
The results of the resistance change of the electric circuit obtained experimentally are sent to a memory of a computer (not shown) for analyzing the detection result of the
When the resistance change value of the actually sensed electric circuit sensed by the
According to the
In addition, carbon nanotubes having an adjustable height and cross-sectional area can be grown and selectively adsorbed using a unique diffusion coefficient of various harmful substances, thereby securing selectivity for harmful substances as a sensor itself.
In addition, it is possible to immediately analyze and identify different kinds of harmful substances even without separation process such as centrifugation.
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A channel opened to allow gas communication into the chamber;
An adsorption member having electrical conductivity and formed in the inner space and capable of attaching toxic substances contained in the gas introduced into the chamber;
And an electric circuit including the adsorption member as one resistor,
Wherein the sensor detects a change in resistance of the electric circuit due to the attachment of the harmful substance to the adsorption member, and detects the harmful substance.
Wherein the gas flows into the chamber through the channel in a diffusive manner.
The adsorption member and the channel are formed to face each other,
And the adsorption member extends parallel to the longitudinal direction of the channel.
Wherein the adsorption member is formed by densely arranging a plurality of adsorption columns spaced apart from each other.
A plurality of adsorption members and a plurality of channels,
Wherein at least one adsorption member is correspondingly formed for each channel.
Wherein the plurality of adsorption columns forming one adsorption member include adsorption columns having different lengths.
Wherein the length of the longest adsorption column among the plurality of adsorption columns forming one adsorption member is different for each of the plurality of adsorption members.
Wherein the plurality of adsorption columns forming one adsorption member include adsorption columns having different cross-sectional areas.
Wherein the plurality of channels comprise channels having different cross-sectional areas.
A conductive surface formed in the chamber;
And a conductor formed outside the chamber and electrically connected to the conductive surface,
Wherein the adsorption member is formed on the conductive surface,
Wherein the electric circuit comprises the conductive surface, the adsorption member, and the conductor.
Wherein the conductive surface is formed by a conductive substrate attached on one side of the chamber.
Wherein the conductive surface is formed by penetrating conductive ions on one side of the chamber.
Wherein the adsorption member is formed of an activated nano-carbon material having conductivity capable of being hetero-bonded to the conductive surface.
Wherein the adsorbing member is transferred onto the conductive surface in a grown or grown state on the conductive surface.
A resistance variation library of the electric circuit for each type and concentration of harmful substances obtained experimentally,
And comparing the actually sensed resistance change to infer the type and concentration of the harmful substance.
Wherein the resistance variable library includes information on a resistance change of the electric circuit when a gas containing two or more kinds of harmful substances is introduced into the chamber.
Wherein the electric circuit is configured to measure a resistance change for each of the plurality of adsorption members.
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