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Pneumatic Pressure & Temperature Sensor

Ideal pressure and temperature sensor

Library

None (example custom library)

  • Pneumatic Pressure & Temperature Sensor block

Description

Note

As of Release R2016b, the Gas block library replaces the Pneumatic library as the recommended way of modeling pneumatic systems. The former Pneumatic library is now included in the product installation as an example custom library. The pneumatic domain definition is still provided with the software, and all the pneumatic blocks in your legacy models continue to work as before. However, these blocks no longer receive full production support and can be removed in a future release.

The Pneumatic Pressure & Temperature Sensor block represents an ideal pressure and temperature sensor, that is, a device that converts pressure differential and temperature differential measured between two pneumatic ports into physical measurement signals P and T, respectively.

The sensor positive direction is from port A to port B. This means that the sensor returns a positive pressure if the pressure at port A is greater than the pressure at port B. Similarly, the sensor returns a positive temperature if the temperature at port A is greater than the temperature at port B.

Ports

The block has the following ports:

A

Pneumatic conserving port associated with the sensor inlet.

B

Pneumatic conserving port associated with the sensor outlet.

Version History

Introduced in R2009b