Charge Transfer Scheme for Atmospheric Ice Sensing

• Main Authors: Umair Najeeb MUGHAL, Taimur RASHID, Muhammad VIRK
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IFSA Publishing, S.L. 2015
• Subjects: Atmospheric icing sensor; Icing type; Icing rate; Charge transfer; Zero crossover; Cold regions; Technology (General); T1-995; Narvik; Narvik University College
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/07138534957b4a9db263948e76c3ec6a

The atmospheric icing parameters are being measured nowadays with the aid of more customized yet limited commercial equipment. The parameters include atmospheric ice detection, icing load and icing rate. The robustness of such equipment is usually under scrutiny when it comes to cold/harsh environment operations. This phenomenon was experienced consistently by the atmospheric Icing Research Team at Narvik University College during data retrieval exercises from its atmospheric icing stations installed at Fargnesfjellet during 2012-13. In this paper it is aimed to address the potential feasibility to produce a robust hardware addressing the icing measurements signals, which includes instrumentation hardware giving icing indications, icing type and de- icing rate measurements in a single platform (not commercially available till date).