THE RTD Omega Engineering（RTDω工程）.pdf

THE RTD History A more rugged construction technique is shown in Figure 37. The platinum wire is bifilar wound on a The same year that Seebeck made his discovery glass or ceramic bobbin. The bifilar winding reduces about thermoelectricity, Sir Humphrey Davy announced the effective enclosed area of the coil to minimize that the resistivity of metals showed a marked magnetic pickup and its related noise. Once the wire temperature dependence. Fifty years later, Sir William is wound onto the bobbin, the assembly is then sealed Siemens proffered the use of platinum as the element with a coating of molten glass. The sealing process in a resistance thermometer. His choice proved assures that the RTD will maintain its integrity under most propitious, as platinum is used to this day as extreme vibration, but it also limits the expansion of the primary element in all high-accuracy resistance the platinum metal at high temperatures. Unless the thermometers. In fact, the Platinum Resistance coefficients of expansion of the platinum and the bobbin 15 Temperature Detector, or PRTD, is used today match perfectly, stress will be placed on the wire as as an interpolation standard from the oxygen point the temperature changes, resulting in a strain-induced (-182.96°C) to the antimony point (630.74°C). resistance change. This may result in a permanent Platinum is especially suited to this purpose, as it can change in the resistance of the wire. withstand high temperatu