Journal
SENSORS
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 13522-13532Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s150613522
Keywords
oil-dissolved gas; carbon nanotubes; nickel-doped; sensor response; linear relationship
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51277188]
- state key laboratory [2007DA10512713207]
- Postdoctoral cience Foundation of Chongqing Grant [XM2014083]
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C2H2, C2H4, and C2H6 are important oil-dissolved gases in power transformers. Detection of the composition and content of oil-dissolved gases in transformers is very significant in the diagnosis and assessment of the state of transformer operations. The commonly used oil-gas analysis methods have many disadvantages, so this paper proposes a Ni-doped carbon nanotube (Ni-CNT) gas sensor to effectively detect oil-dissolved gases in a transformer. The gas-sensing properties of the sensor to C2H2, C2H4, and C2H6 were studied using the test device. Based on the density functional theory (DFT) the adsorption behaviors of the three gases on intrinsic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and Ni-CNTs were calculated. The adsorption energy, charge transfer, and molecular frontier orbital of the adsorption system were also analyzed. Results showed that the sensitivity of the CNT sensor to the three kinds of gases was in the following order: C2H2 > C2H4 > C2H6. Moreover, the doped Ni improved the sensor response, and the sensor response and gas concentration have a good linear relationship.
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