7 Benefits of Pressure Sensor for Industrial Application

Pressure sensors play a big role in people's industrial production. They have unique advantages in ensuring industrial production safety and improving work efficiency. This article will describe the advantages of pressure sensors in industrial production and manufacturing applications from seven aspects.

What is a pressure sensor?

Pressure sensor is a device that senses pressure. It is mainly composed of pressure sensing elements and diaphragm. It is widely used in process control, constant pressure water supply, agricultural irrigation, pipeline pressure monitoring and other fields. It can accurately measure the pressure of water, oil, gas and various chemical gases and liquids, which provides great help to industrial production and manufacturing and facilitates people's daily life.

Accurate process control

Pressure sensors play an indispensable role in the process. For example, in the chemical, petroleum, and water treatment industries, we need to know the height of the liquid level accurately. By installing the pressure sensor at the bottom of the tanks, we can sense the pressure on the pressure sensor and use the formula to calculate the liquid level. In the compressor and pump industries, we need to know the pressure of the compressor and pump accurately to ensure the safety and stability of the production process. If we are equipped with an alarm system, we can receive an equipment alarm when the pressure reaches the set threshold, which greatly avoids safety accidents caused by equipment damage.

Maximize economic benefits

The use of pressure sensors has greatly improved production efficiency and reduced labor costs. For example, the pressure level values that need to be manually measured and recorded can be directly transmitted to the computer through the back-end system, and manual processing is only required when an alarm is triggered. Pressure sensors monitor equipment pressure in real time to avoid long downtime caused by equipment failure, which can cause economic losses. During the production process, pressure sensors can accurately measure pressure parameters to ensure the consistency and stability of production products.

Safety assurance

There are many unsafe factors in industrial scenarios, so it is very important to ensure safety in the production process. For example, in the chemical industry, for the pressure and level measurement of flammable and explosive gases and liquids, it is necessary to select products with explosion-proof performance. In chemical storage tanks and reactors, the pressure value needs to be monitored in real time. If the pressure is too high or too low, it may cause explosions or gas and liquid leakage, endangering human health, environmental pollution, or causing loss of life and property.

Energy saving

In the chemical industry, chemical reactions require specific pressure to maintain. While monitoring the pressure, the pressure sensor avoids incomplete chemical reactions due to insufficient pressure in the reaction, which leads to energy waste. In the air conditioning system, the pressure sensor monitors the pressure in the air conditioning pipe and the pressure difference between indoor and outdoor. According to the pressure data, the operating status of the air conditioning host can be adjusted to achieve the best cooling or heating effect, and also reduce energy consumption.

Suitable for various applications

Pressure sensors are widely used in a variety of application fields. Such as petrochemical, air conditioning and refrigeration, pipeline pressure monitoring, industrial process control, etc. The measuring media include oil, water, gas and chemical media. There are also corresponding solutions for corrosive gas and liquid. For steam with high temperature, a heat sink is added to the pressure sensor. For the pressure measurement of oxygen and hydrogen, the core filled with fluorine oil and the shell material plated with gold can be used respectively.

High reliability

The pressure sensor is made of materials with low thermal expansion coefficients, such as single crystal silicon, ceramics, and stainless steel. Even if the ambient temperature changes, the product will not deform. Before the pressure sensor leaves the factory, engineers will perform temperature compensation on them, which greatly reduces the error caused by temperature changes. In addition, the pressure sensor has good electromagnetic compatibility and can effectively resist the interference of external electromagnetic fields, so that the pressure sensor can also output stable pressure measurement signals under the interference of external magnetic fields.

Data collection and analysis

In industrial and experimental scenarios, pressure sensors can be directly connected to data collectors via cables. GAMICOS provides you with GPY118 and GPY119 data acquisition modules, which can directly display the measured pressure and liquid level values. With the continuous development of Internet of Things technology, products can automatically have wireless functions, such as Lora, 4G, Bluetooth and other transmission methods. These products can upload the collected data to a wireless gateway or cloud server. After collecting the pressure and liquid level information, the pressure and liquid level are judged according to the pre-set threshold. If the data is abnormal, the relevant staff will be notified for good processing.

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