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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 3

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■ Setting the Correct Effective Emissivity<br />

Setting the correct effective emissivity is critical in making temperature<br />

measurements. Table 2.2 can be used as a guide when obtaining absolute<br />

temperature values is not critical. When measurement accuracy is important.<br />

it is always better to directly determine the effective emissivity of the surface<br />

to be measured using the actual instrument to be used in the measurement<br />

and under similar operating conditions. This is because emissivity may vary<br />

with temperature, surface characteristics and measuremenl spectral band and<br />

may even vary among samples of the same material. There are several<br />

methods that may be used to quickly estimate target effective emissivity. One<br />

known as the reference emitter technique can be used to detennine the<br />

emissivity setting needed for a particular target material. The determination<br />

uses the same instrument that will be used for the actual measurement. The<br />

procedure is illustrated in Figure 4.14 and is described as follows:<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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