ECBCS Annex Publications - Annex 18 Demand Controlled Ventilation Systems
Sensor Tests
by P Fahlen, H Andersson
Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras, 1992, SP Report 1992:13,
ISBN 91 784 8331 331 X, 148 pp + apps.
Contents
Introduction
- Background
- Project description
Sensor types
- Generics
- Active elements
- Connection of sensors to control systems
- Test laboratories and calibration facilities
- Testing and rating
- Conclusions
Presentation of tested sensors
- Sensor S1
- Sensor S2
- Sensor S3
- Sensor S4
- Sensor S5
- Sensor S6
- Sensor S7
- Sensor S8
- Sensor S9
- Sensor S10
- Sensor S11
- Sensor S12
- Sensor S13
- Sensor S14
- Sensor S15
Test Program
- Sampling and preparation
- Data sheets and general information
- Determination of the performance of new sensors
- Environmental tests
- Final test
- Field testing of DCV sensors
Test results
- Warming up time
- Determination of the sensor characteristic curve
- Linearity
- Hysteresis
- Sensitivity
- Repeatability
- Stability
- Rise time
- Cross-sensitivity
- Tobacco smoke
- Environmental tests
- Final test
- Field testing of DCV sensors
Comments on the test results
- VOC-sensors
- CO2-sensors
- Humidity sensors
Conclusion
- VOC-sensors
- CO2-sensors
- Humidity sensors
