A. Carotenuto et M. Dellisola, AN EXPERIMENTAL-VERIFICATION OF SATURATED SALT SOLUTION-BASED HUMIDITY FIXED-POINTS, International journal of thermophysics, 17(6), 1996, pp. 1423-1439
The high instability and hysterisis of the relative humidity sensors c
urrently available on the market render necessary simple and economic
calibration methodologies that can be used as secondary or working sta
ndards. The chemical equilibrium-type systems based on saturated aqueo
us salt solutions, even though simple and economical, are not always m
etrologically satisfactory For calibration. They can, in fact, be unre
liable, when fundamental requirements are neglected; also, unacceptabl
e discrepancies continue to exist in the equilibrium relative humidity
reference data of saturated aqueous salt solutions furnished by both
literature and standards. To highlight the factors that increase the r
eliability of calibrations with saturated aqueous salt solutions, the
authors of this paper have redetermined the equilibrium relative humid
ity reference data of 11 saturated acqueous salt solutions at ambient
pressure and temperature. The solutions chosen were the ones generally
used as fixed points to obtain a relative humidity calibration scale.