Since August 2012, manufacturers of construction products must declare the performance values of the thermal protection products they market in Europe. Thermal conductivity and thermal resistance are the key performances that must be declared. However, the current level of agreement between national reference laboratories is still three times higher than the maximum of 5% allowed in the European Parliament regulations.
Objectives
Develop metrological means to measure the thermal conductivity of non-conductive materials (0.02 W·m-1·K-1 to 1 W·m-1·K-1) in the temperature range from 80°C to 800°C
Definition of calibrated materials in thermal conductivity to ensure the metrological connection of industrial measuring installations
The objective in terms of relative uncertainty is 5% on thermal conductivity
Summary
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Publications and communications
WU J., MORRELL R., FRY T., GNANIAH S., GOHIL D., DAWSON A., HAMEURY J., ALAIN K., HAMMERSCHMIDT U., TURZÓ-ANDRÁS E., STRNAD R. and BLAHUT A., “Provisional Assessment of Candidate High Temperature Thermal Conductivity Reference Materials in the EMRP 'Thermo' Project'”, Proceedings of 32nd ITCC and 20th ITES, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States of America, April 27th – May 1st 2014.
HAMEURY J., KOENEN A., HAY B., WU J., STACEY C., HAMMERSCHMIDT U., PENNEWITZ E., RAFELD E. K., TURZÓ-ANDRÁS E., STRNAD R. et BLAHUT A., “Identification and characterization of new materials for construction of hot and cold plates for high temperature guarded hot plates”, 20th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties (ECTP), Porto, Portugal, 31 août August 31st - September 4th 2014.
HAMMERSCHMIDT U., HAMEURY J., STRNAD R., TURZÓ-ANDRAS E. and WU J., “Critical Review of Industrial Techniques for Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Thermal Protection Materials”, International Journal of Thermophysics (to be published).
Partners
- NPL
- CMI
- LNE
- MKEH
- PTB