The case study in this article is temperature condition modeling between a temperature artifact and a black test corner measuring instrument. The black test corner is an instrument which consists of two wooden walls and a floor, with build-in thermocouples fixed on the back side of the copper disks. The black test corner is used for measuring how the temperature of a household appliance is influencing the surroundings in the real environment, e.g., in the kitchen, the living room, etc. The temperature artifact as presented in this article is a specially developed heating plate which is very stable and can be set to different temperatures. Technical standards for conformity assessment usually describe only what should be measured, in some cases also how accurate the measurement should be, but not what kind of measuring instrument should be used. Therefore, it sometimes happens that measurements are performed with improper equipment or in an improper way. For the same level of appliance conformance testing, laboratories shall use the same testing procedures and comparable measuring instruments. This article deals with the analysis of influencing parameters when measuring the temperature rise using the black test corner. Modeling of temperature conditions between a temperature artifact and a black test corner, using commercial modeling software, was performed to find out whether this modeling can be used for detailed evaluation of all possible influencing parameters of the mentioned testing procedure. A scheme and a list of influencing parameters that has to be modeled in the following research is prepared to arrange an optimal experiment.
COBISS.SI-ID: 8947028
The article presents the numerical analysis of a particular thermal effect, which occurs during the calibration of standard platinum resistance thermometers in fixed-point cells. The temperature within the fixed-point cell varies linearly with the immersion depth due to the hydrostatic-head effect, so a quasi-linear temperature gradient in the vertical direction is inherently present. The key issue that is tackled in this article is the magnitude of these temperature deviations and their influence on the measurement accuracy. To get a better insight into this phenomenon, a numerical model based on a finite-difference method was developed. The model allows the simulation of the measurement of the thermometer immersion profile and of the use of different bushings, as two of the methods for assessing the thermal effects. The results of the modeling showed that there is an inherent difference between the temperature measured by the thermometer sensor and the temperature at the point of the phase transition, even if the immersion depth was infinite and there was no perturbing heat exchange toward the thermal enclosure and ambient.
COBISS.SI-ID: 8908884
Thermal imagers are calibrated with equipment and procedures that were primarily developed for the calibration of optical radiation thermometers. This approach provides direct calibration results only for a small percentage of the detector elements, which are in view of a blackbody aperture. For the remaining detector elements of the thermal imager under calibration, it is assumed that they have the same characteristics. This inference may not be always true. New calibration procedure evaluates not only the correction and uncertainty of the selected detector elements, but also the uniformity of all detector elements of the thermal imager.
COBISS.SI-ID: 8509012