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Furnace radiation modelling

September 13, 2007

Furnace radiation modeling Location: Industrial Research Limited (IRL): Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand Their Client: New Zealand Refining Company The Topic: Infrared radiation thermometry for furnace tube temperature measurement Client benefit: High quality measurement leads to better plant control, reduced risk and increased profitability Most of this article is from the writeup on the [...]

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New System for Spectral Emissivity Measurements & Spectral Emissivity of Metals at the University of Duisburg

September 2, 2007

On the 13-15 June, 2001, in Budapest, Hungary, the 12th International Conference on Thermal Measurements and Thermogrammery (THERMO) was held. Among the papers were two by Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Bauer, Dipl.-Phys., A. Moldenhauer, Dipl.-Phys. & M. Rink of the Gerhard Mercator Universität Duisburg, Germany The first presentation was entitled: “New System for Spectral Emissivity Measurements [...]

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Measuring the spectral emissivity of rocks and the minerals that form them

August 29, 2007

Measuring the spectral emissivity of rocks and the minerals that form them, By Miroslav Danov, Dimitar Stoyanov, and Vitchko Tsanev. It is an online paper at the SPIE news room website. The tagline for the paper reads: “A new ground-based technique measures minerals in their natural conditions, a prerequisite for satellite data processing”. The paper [...]

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AFR’s SPECTRAL EMISSOMETER MEASUREMENT SERVICE

August 22, 2007
FT-IR Based Benchtop Emissometer Schematic

Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (AFR) offers a testing service using the SERIES 205 SPECTRAL EMISSOMETER at their Connecticut-based laboratories.The Series 205 Spectral Emissometer is an automated bench-top device that measures spectral emissivity over a broad spectral range while simultaneously determining the surface temperature at the measurement location.The bench top, FT-IR based instruments are designed specifically [...]

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Ircon’s Plastic Film Transmission Curves

August 20, 2007

The definitive primer for non-contact plastic film temperature measurement by Ircon, Inc., Niles, Il, USA in a downloadable PDF format (556 Kb). This Note has been a unique resource for IR temperature measurements in the thin film plastic film processing industry for more than 20 years. It was recently removed from the Ircon web page [...]

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Hello World!

August 18, 2007

Welcome to SpectralEmissivity.com. This site is for those who want or need to know more about spectral emissivity, what it is, how it is measured, reported and applies, or is applied to, Radiation Thermometry, including the two dimensional variation known popularly as Quantitative Thermal Imaging, and Spectral Radiometry. We are under construction but check back [...]

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