Surrounding effects on temperature and emissivity measurement of equipment in electrical distribution system

Abstract

This paper reports the effect of surrounding conditions, e.g. IR radiation through IR window and the reflectivity and temperature of internal surface of chamber on the temperature and emissivity measurement. The results show that the transmission percentage of IR window is about 50 for all IR temperatures, except when the target temperature was the same as the surrounding temperature (T,ur). At this condition (Ts = Tc), the temperature readings were almost the same for all percentage of IR window. The accurate temperature measurement can be achieved by adjustment of the transmission correction in the IR camera or in the software. Considering the effect of materials surface and temperature of chamber, it can be concluded that the surrounding conditions can affect to the accurate emissivity measurement only with the high reflectance object, whereas the high emissivity object has no effect from the surround.