MEAS141 - Introduction to Humidity Measurement

This course is a high-level overview of humidity measurement. The basic uses of humidity measurements are described, as well as the fundamental concepts and measurement units, and the instrumentation used to make measurement.

The course outline is as follows:

• Introduction
• Purpose of Humidity Measurement
  • Calibration and Testing Laboratories
  • Production Facilities
  • Weather Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Human Comfort
• Preliminary Concepts
  • Pressure
  • The Ideal Gas Law
  • Partial Pressure and Dalton's Law
  • Mole Fraction and Partial Pressure
  • Vapor Pressure
  • Dewpoint
  • Frost Point
  • Saturated Gasses
• Humidity Measurement Units
  • Relative Humidity
  • Absolute Humidity
  • Mixing Ratio
• Humidity Instrumentation
  • Sensors
    • Hair, cellulose butyrate, and other substances
    • Capacitive sensors
    • Resistive sensors
    • Thermal Conductivity Sensors
    • Sling psychrometers
    • Chilled mirror sensors
  • Standard Humidity Sources
    • Saturated Salt Chambers
    • Gravimetric Standards
    • Two-pressure Humidity Generator
    • Two-temperature Humidity Generator
    • Two-Volume Humidity Generator
• Calibration of Humidity Instrumentation
• Summary

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