Abstract:
The high-speed radiation thermometer has an infrared measurement wavelength band that is matched to the infrared wavelength band of near-blackbody emittance of ceramic components and ceramic thermal barrier coatings used in turbine engines. It is comprised of a long wavelength infrared detector, a signal amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, an optical system to collect radiation from the target, an optical filter, and an integral reference signal to maintain a calibrated response. A megahertz range electronic data acquisition system is connected to the radiation detector to operate on raw data obtained. Because the thermometer operates optimally at 8 to 12 &mgr;m, where emittance is near-blackbody for ceramics, interferences to measurements performed in turbine engines are minimized. The method and apparatus are optimized to enable mapping of surface temperatures on fast moving ceramic elements, and the thermometer can provide microsecond response, with inherent self-diagnostic and calibration-correction features.
Abstract:
The apparatus and method permit simultaneous and precise determination of the temperature and spectral emittance, over a wide spectral region, of a hot sample. Radiance, and hemispherical reflectance and transmittance measurements are employed, and FT-IR technology is advantageously applied. Reflectance and (where necessary) transmittance measurements are utilized to determine the fraction of incident radiation, of selected wavelength, that is absorbed by the sample, in turn establishing a spectral emittance value. Taken with the measured radiance at the same wavelength, the spectral emittance value will provide a quantity that can be matched with the spectral radiance of a theoretical black body, again at the selected wavelength, to thereby derive the temperature of the hot sample; this in turn enables determination of the spectral emittance of the sample over a desired spectral range.
Abstract:
Stand-alone multiple gas analysis apparatus, of relatively small physical size, integrates one or more supplemental sensors, such as a self-heating, amperometric, limiting current-type oxygen sensor and/or a titania nanotube-type hydrogen sensor, into the sampling cell gas flow components of an FT-IR gas analyzer. The apparatus enables simultaneous quantitative concentration measurements of infrared-active gases and of infrared-inactive atomic species and homonuclear diatomic molecules, such as of oxygen and hydrogen.