Thermographic-phosphor temperature measurements: Commercial and defense-related applications
- Noel (B.W.), Espanola, NM (United States)
- EG&G Energy Measurements, Goleta, CA (United States)
- Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
This paper is a review of a diverse set of applications of the thermographic-phosphor (TP) method for measuring temperatures remotely. The TP method is useful in hostile and/or inaccessible environments where no other known method works. It is highly accurate, nonintrusive, durable, conceptually simple, covers an unprecedented temperature range (0 K to >1200 K), can measure temperature at a single point or over an entire surface, and can make static, steady-state, or very high speed dynamic measurements. The TP method can also be used to make leadless, remotely interrogated heat-flux gauges that can nonintrusively measure spatial distributions of heat flux over arbitrarily large areas with high resolution. The applications described include measurements in gas centrifuges, motors, variable-area ejectors, rotors and stators in gas turbines, and others. The authors also briefly discuss heat-flux gauges and their applications.
- Research Organization:
- EG and G Energy Measurements, Inc., Goleta, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC08-93NV11265
- OSTI ID:
- 10159239
- Report Number(s):
- EGG-11265-2053; CONF-940581-2; ON: DE94013266; TRN: 94:006468
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 40. international instrumentation symposium,Baltimore, MD (United States),1-5 May 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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