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Heat loss by radiation, convection, and leak through the supports is minimised in or<strong>de</strong>r to<br />

let the conduction through the gas be the dominant transfer mechanism of heat from the<br />

filam<strong>en</strong>t to the surroundings. Changes in gas composition in a chamber lead to temperature<br />

changes of the filam<strong>en</strong>t and thus to accompanying changes in resistance which are<br />

measured with the completed Wheatstone bridge. The heat lost from the filam<strong>en</strong>t will<br />

<strong>de</strong>p<strong>en</strong>d on both the thermal conductivity of the gas and its specific heat. Both these<br />

parameters will change in the pres<strong>en</strong>ce of a differ<strong>en</strong>t gas or solute vapor and as a result the<br />

temperature of the filam<strong>en</strong>t changes, causing a change in pot<strong>en</strong>tial across the filam<strong>en</strong>t. This<br />

pot<strong>en</strong>tial change is amplified and either fed to a suitable recor<strong>de</strong>r or passed to an<br />

appropriate data acquisition system. As the <strong>de</strong>tector filam<strong>en</strong>t is in thermal equilibrium with<br />

its surroundings and the <strong>de</strong>vice actually responds to the heat lost from the filam<strong>en</strong>t, the<br />

<strong>de</strong>tector is extremely flow and pressure s<strong>en</strong>sitive. Consequ<strong>en</strong>tly, all katharometer <strong>de</strong>tectors<br />

must be carefully thermostated and must be fitted with refer<strong>en</strong>ce cells to help comp<strong>en</strong>sate<br />

for changes in pressure or flow rate. Usually, one of the spirals of the katharometer is<br />

sealed perman<strong>en</strong>tly in air and the resistance readings are the refer<strong>en</strong>ce readings. Other<br />

filam<strong>en</strong>t is connected with the gas as analyze reading. The katharometer has the advantage<br />

that its op<strong>en</strong> cell can form part of the diffusion cell, and so it can indicate continuously the<br />

changes in composition as diffusion and thermal diffusion proceeds without sampling.<br />

1.5.2 From the variation of viscosity<br />

Van Itterbeek and van Paemel (1938, 1940) ([101, 102], see also [50]) have <strong>de</strong>veloped a<br />

method of measurem<strong>en</strong>t based on the damping of an oscillating-disk viscometers. The<br />

oscillating disk itself is a part of the top bulb of the thermal diffusion cells. The change in<br />

the composition of the upper part due to thermal diffusion, changes the viscosity of the<br />

mixture and th<strong>en</strong> corresponding change in composition is found from calibration curve.<br />

This method has a precision of the same as the conductivity <strong>de</strong>tector.<br />

1.5.3 Gas Chromatography (GC)<br />

In a Gas Chromatograph the sample is injected into a heated inlet where it is vaporized,<br />

and th<strong>en</strong> transferred into a chromatographic column. Differ<strong>en</strong>t compounds are separated in<br />

the column, primarily through their physical interaction with the walls of the column. Once<br />

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