platform for a hydrocarbon exhaust gas sensor utilizing a pumping cell and a conductometric sensor烃废气传感器平台利用注入细胞和电导传感器.pdfVIP

Sensors 2009, 9, 7498-7508; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Platform for a Hydrocarbon Exhaust Gas Sensor Utilizing a Pumping Cell and a Conductometric Sensor Diana Biskupski 1,*, Andrea Geupel 1, Kerstin Wiesner 2, Maximilian Fleischer 2 and Ralf Moos 1 1 Bayreuth Engine Research Center, Functional Materials, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany 2 Siemens AG, Corporate Research Technology, Sensor Systems, 81739 Munich, Germany * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: Functional.Materials@uni- bayreuth.de, Tel.: +49-921-557 425; Fax: +49-921-557 405. Received: 5 August 2009; in revised form: 15 September 2009 / Accepted: 18 September 2009 / Published: 18 September 2009 Abstract: Very often, high-temperature operated gas sensors are cross-sensitive to oxygen and/or they cannot be operated in oxygen-deficient (rich) atmospheres. For instance, some metal oxides like Ga2O3 or doped SrTiO3 are excellent materials for conductometric hydrocarbon detection in the rough atmosphere of automotive exhausts, but have to be operated preferably at a constant oxygen concentration. We propose a modular sensor platform that combines a conductometric two-sensor-setup with an electrochemical pumping cell made of YSZ to establish a constant oxygen concentration in the ambient of the conductometric sensor film. In this paper, the platform is introduced, the two-sensor-setup is integrat