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Temperature Measurement Course 

This three-day course covers the measurement of temperature and the calibration of temperature measuring instruments. It incorporates extensive hands-on practical exercises.

Refer to the Participants Handbook for an outline of support services for participants and key policies including participant's rights and responsibilities.

Objectives

The course provides participants with the knowledge and skills:
  • to understand the principles of operation of common temperature sensors and their instrumentation, especially thermocouples and resistance, radiation and liquid-in-glass thermometers
  • to employ suitable processes for calibrating and using temperature measurement equipment 
  • to identify various sources of error that affect temperature measurements
  • to develop the technical understanding required to become a NATA signatory

Outline

The topics covered include:

  • physics of temperature measurement
  • temperature scale, traceability and international standards
  • thermocouple electromotive force, measurement and calibration 
  • properties of thermocouples and systematic errors
  • infrared and general radiation thermometry and their application
  • errors and calibration in radiation thermometry
  • calibration baths and furnaces
  • digital thermometers 
  • resistance thermometry: associated errors and calibration 
  • enclosure testing (multi-site measurements)
  • liquid-in-glass thermometry
  • estimating measurement uncertainty (participants with limited experience would benefit from attending our Introduction to Estimating Measurement Uncertainty course)
  • extensive hands-on practical exercises in measurement

Course Details (course code TM000)

5 to 7 June 2012 at NMI, Bradfield Road, Lindfield, NSW 2070

$1645 which includes GST, lunches, refreshments, Monograph 5 Thermocouples in Temperature Measurement, Monograph 8 Humidity and its Measurement, Monograph 9 Liquid-in-Glass Thermometry, Monograph 11 Platinum Resistance Thermometry, Monograph 12 Radiation Thermometry and other course material.

The course will start at 9 am and end by 5 pm.

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Phone 02 8467 3796 or email training@measurement.gov.au.
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