This book was just released on 3 August 2007 It is available from the SPIE Press, ISBN: 9780819467836, price for SPIE Members: $39.00(USD), and Non-member: $47.00 (USD).
(I just got my copy last week!)
At last, someone has done a very thorough job on pulling together all the different details involved in solving this most difficult and long-standing measurement problem and written a exceptional book about it.
In it, both the Near IR and Mid IR measurement approaches are described in detail and the problems of other verification means are described. It is also an excellent review in MHO of the subject of Thermal Radiation (IR) Thermometry.
The author is an objective worker in the field, Dr. Peter Saunders, a well-known physicist who works at The Measurement Standards Laboratory (MSL), New Zealand’s National Metrology Institute.
His book, is the latest, but possibly not the last word, on this measurement problem area. But, after skimming through the chapters, I think it will be a while before anyone digs as deeply into this application area of temperature measurement as he has.
The problem was recognised by many organizations in the Oil Industry and just over 20 years ago another unique instrument was developed and patented by Exxon Research to help solve it and get around the limitations of the then workhorse instrument, the Disappearing Filament Optical Pyrometer.
That instrument concept in the form of several different models are manufactured by the Pyrometer Instrument Company under license from Exxon. Called The PyroLaser, it is used effectively to correct for emissivity in many uses and attempts to solve the measurement problem of reflected radiation in Petrochemical furnaces.
The Quantum I Portable Laser IR Thermometer, now made by Mikron Infrared, is a similar device and was designed by the original inventor of the patented Exxon Research device.
A competing Land Instruments device, the portable Cyclops 390B Furnace Pro uses a different approach by using an optimum measuring waveband, where estimated emissivity errors can be more readily tolerated.
I highly recommend a good read of Dr. Saunder’s book before one commits to buy anything. The price of it is negligible compared to any of the measurement devices on the market and and the savings of time it offers by his shared experience and theoretical knowledge.
Peter Saunders is a true expert and has done a very thorough and remarkable job that goes back over a period of several years.
My final comment is: I only wish I had the know-how, experience and writing ability to have written such a unique and well-done monograph. Kudos to Dr. Peter Saunders!
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