Thermopile power measurement for heat balance calorimetry

Callum M. Johnston; Bryan P. Ruddy; Poul M. F. Nielsen; Andrew J. Taberner

doi:10.21307/ijssis-2019-082

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Thermopile power measurement for heat balance calorimetry

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

Volume 7 (2014): Issue 5 (January 2014)

By: Callum M. Johnston, Bryan P. Ruddy, Poul M. F. Nielsen and Andrew J. Taberner

Open Access

|Feb 2020

Abstract

Very high resolution power sensors are required for measuring the rate of heat production (~10 μW) of small samples of heart muscle (rat cardiac trabeculae, ~2 mm long and ~200 μm diameter). In this paper, we examine the design criteria for thermopiles to maximize their signal-to-noise ratio for heat balance calorimetry. We found that those thermopiles with a high thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT) are the best for power measurements. An initial prototype with a resolution of 53 nW has been built.

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Calorimetry,

thermal variables measurement,

thermal sensors,

thermal noise

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