The COVID-19 pandemic has made everyone more familiar with contactless body temperature measurement, which is often used when entering a doctor’s office, hospital, government building, commercial office, when boarding a flight, and many other instances. Non-contact temperature measurement, used widely in industrial applications, is accomplished with a pyrometer, or infrared thermometer, which performs temperature measurements by sensing the infrared energy emitted by an object.
Pyrometers are used for temperature measurement in industrial applications where accurate temperature measurement of materials, often at very high temperatures, is required within a given process. For example, non-contact temperature measurement is important in metals fabrication and manufacturing for pipe and tubing, forging, heat treating, and other processes.
Thermo-Temp, Inc., a Houston, Texas calibration services company specializing in the application and calibration of pyrometry and thermal imaging technologies, provides an excellent introduction to non-contact infrared temperature measurement. It includes temperature measurement examples for five industries, a description of pyrometry basics, and a product overview brochure of non-contact temperature measurement products. It serves as a good starting point for professionals in cement and lime production, metals fabrication and manufacturing, power, semiconductor, and steel industries who are interested in learning about this important technology for industrial process and research applications.
