what is grounded thermocouple and ungrounded thermocouple?

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whats the benefit and disadvantages

Answer 1

Thermocouple junctions are of three types: grounded, ungrounded and exposed tip. A grounded thermocouple has the junction touching the sheath material - there is continuity between leads and thermocouple sheath. Ungrounded junction is electrically and physically isolated from the sheath material. The junction of an exposed tip thermocouple is exposed to the surrounding environment.

Ungrounded Thermocouple:

At I2R we design our instruments to use ungrounded thermocouples. Using grounded thermocouples may cause erroneous reading due to ground loops. The ungrounded thermocouple junction is electrically isolated from the outer sheath material by an MgO packing material.
Advantages:
The thermocouple junction is isolated from ground.
Long term drift under cycling conditions is minimized .
Disadvantages:
Slower response time compared to grounded type.

Grounded Thermocouple:

Ground junction thermocouples have the junction welded to the sheath material. These couples provide faster response to temperature change but greater noise cause by ground loops.
Advantages:
Faster response times compared to ungrounded types.
Disadvantages:
ground loops cause interference with instruments.

Answer 2

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what is grounded thermocouple and ungrounded thermocouple?
whats the benefit and disadvantages

Answer 3

Grounding (earthing in some countries) refers to a circuit having a low resistance path to ground. Sometimes it is convenient to use two conductors between a thermocouple and whatever it is connected to; and others where it is more convenient to connect one side of the thermocouple and one side of the device to ground. Then only a single conductor is needed between the other side of the thermocouple and the device.

If the thermocouple is being used to measure temperature, greater accuracy will be achieved with ungrounded circuits.

Answer 4

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The triple-point-of-water is one of the fixed points in temperature calibration. The typical thermocouple has a specification of about ± 2.0 °C over the entire operating span and calibration uncertainties of about 0.25 °C. These uncertainties are usually only achieved in a calibration laboratory. The TPW cell is a laboratory standard and properly set up produces 0.01 °C to within 0.0002 °C and sometimes a bit better. If you are trying to calibrate a probe/meter combination a good ice bath should get you in the ball park (± 0.5 °C) and boiling water accounting for your elevation, should give you a second point to validate the linearity of your meter/probe combination. The dominant uncertainty in your calibration will likely be the resolution of your meter. To get uncertainties of near 0.1 °C at the time of use, you really need to go with a PRT. If you are trying to calibrate the thermocouple only, you need to connect the leads to copper wires and submerge this junction in an ice bath and apply known temperatures to the thermocouple bead or probe. The output will be in microvolts and can be checked for compliance to the NBS/NIST tables using a good nanovoltmeter or a differential measurement scheme and a calibrator. There's lots of stuff about temperature calibration on the Omega Engineering website. Yellow Springs Instruments also used to have information. You may also check out Hart Scientific (Fluke Corporation). Good Luck! Oh... by the way a TPW cell goes for about $750 (US).

Answer 5

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