Oil Wear Debris Sensor with Temperature Compensation

In this paper, in response to the problem that oil temperature changes will affect the detection results of the inductive wear debris sensor, a Wheatstone bridge-type oil wear debris sensor was designed using two two-wire helical tube coils, precision potentiometers, precision resistors, and a conditioning circuit with differential, phase-locked, and amplification functions were designed. Through practical tests, 72-400 μm iron particles were detected under the water bath's heating condition from 20℃ to 70℃. It proves that the designed Wheatstone bridge sensor and conditioning circuit can detect ferromagnetic particles in multiple temperature oil. The de-signed sensor and conditioning circuit effectively solves the problem of temperature drift of the detected signal under high-temperature conditions, improving the signal-to-noise ratio of wear debris detection under multiple temperatures. The sensor is suitable for lubricant detection sys-tems with varying or constant high oil temperatures. The work presented in this paper provides significant reference value for the practical operation of oil sensors in real-world environments.