An encapsulated fiber optic fuel level sensor

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sengupta ◽  
M. Sai Shankar ◽  
P. Saidi Reddy ◽  
R. L. N. Sai Prasad ◽  
K. S. Kamineni ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Laddha ◽  
P. B. Buchade ◽  
A. D. Shaligram

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Zhijun Zhang ◽  
Shiwei Zhang

The working principle of the refractive-type fiber optic liquid level sensor is analyzed in detail based on the light refraction principle. The optic path models are developed in consideration of common simplification and the residual liquid film on the glass tube wall. The calculating formulae for the model are derived, constraint conditions are obtained, influencing factors are discussed, and the scopes and skills of application are analyzed through instance simulations. The research results are useful in directing the correct usage of the fiber optic liquid level sensor, especially in special cases, such as those involving viscous liquid in the glass tube monitoring.


2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Vargas ◽  
Carmen Vazquez ◽  
Ana B. Gonzalo ◽  
Jose M. Pena

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong-qin Yi ◽  
Yun Luo ◽  
Zheng-ping Zhang

2011 ◽  
Vol 301-303 ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Xiu Wu Sui ◽  
Xiao Guang Qi ◽  
Da Peng Li ◽  
Guo Xiong Zhang ◽  
Yu Ming Fan

The paper presents the measurement system of the air plane fuel mass consisting of cylinder shell resonating density meter and double cylinders capacitance level meter. The finite element analysis method of ANSYS10.0 is used to analyze the performance of cylinder shell resonator density meter and double cylinders capacitance fuel level sensor. On the base of simulation, the cylinder shell is 45mm in length, 9mm in radius, and 0.08mm in thickness, the material is 3J53; the double cylinders capacitance is 8mm in inside diameter, 23.6mm in outside diameter, and 550 mm in length. The experiments show the uncertainty of cylinder shell resonating density meter is only 0.12%, the uncertainty of double cylinders capacitance level meter is only 0.2%, and the uncertainty of the fuel mass measurement system is 0.4%.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Alfa Satya Putra ◽  
Jennifer Novia Nursalim ◽  
Arnold Aribowo ◽  
Hendra Tjahyadi

Fuel shortage is a common problem in Indonesia. This prompted many cases of vehicle fuel theft. As a solution to this problem, an Arduino-based vehicle fuel theft detector system is implemented. Arduino-based vehicle fuel theft detector system is a prototype that uses Arduino UNO as a microcontroller, IComSat v1.1 SIM900 GSM/GPRS Shield to communicate with mobile phone, fuel level sensor as a volume detector, and push button as a detector to check whether the fuel tank’s lid is open or closed. The working principle of this system is to detect the state of the fuel tank lid. When the lid is open, the system will make a phone call. Then, the system will keep track of fuel volume. If there is a drastic decrease in volume, the system will send information about the decreasing volume in the form of a short message to the owner of the vehicle. The success rate of the communication system between Arduino UNO and other electronic devices is 100%. Accuracy of fuel level sensor is 90%. Success rate of push button switch in detecting the state of fuel tank’s lid is 100%. Success rate of GSM Shield communication is 90%.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei He ◽  
Xuan Yu ◽  
Chenggang Wang ◽  
Cui Zhang ◽  
Bo Feng ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 281 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Mei Yuan ◽  
Si Si Xiong ◽  
Shao Peng Dong

A brand new self-compensated capacitive fuel level sensor has been proposed in this paper. Through mathematics manipulation and theoretical analysis, we design the self-compensated structure of capacitive level sensor. The multiple segmentation structure makes compensation for temperature and medium possible. Furthermore, the effect caused by adhesion on the sensor electrodes if the adhesion fails to return initial position when the plane’s attitude is changing has been analyzed. Additionally, based on RF admittance theory, the transducer which can eliminate the adhesion effect has been designed and implemented using phase-locked sampling technique. Through level experiment and data analysis, the fuel level sensor proved to achieve all the destinations, including compensation for temperature and medium and elimination of adhesion effect. Hence, the accuracy of level measurement has been improved.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yu ◽  
Hang Yu ◽  
Dongsheng Li

A cross-capacitance liquid level sensor is based on the principle of cross capacitance. This study designed a new single-tube cross-capacitance fuel-level sensor. The fuel-level measurement model is established for a single-tube cross-capacitive sensor, and the relationship between the measured liquid level and sensor output capacitance is derived. The characteristics of the sensor were tested experimentally. The experimental results demonstrate that the linearity error of the liquid-level sensor of the single-tube calculation for the spacecraft is ±0.48%, the repeatability error is ±0.47%, and the hysteresis error is ±0.68%. The cross-capacitive fuel-level sensor developed in this study can be used in the fuel tank of spacecrafts owing to its low weight and high precision.


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