Single-wavelength pyrometers are widely used as a noncontact temperature measurement tool in material processing, petrochemical and laser-machining industries. In addition, these intensity-based IR sensors are used extensively as a diagnostic and health monitoring in the development and research of advanced high-temperature military and commercial gas turbine engines. In contrast to thermocouples, optical pyrometers have several advantages. First, they are easy to install and second they do not bring any disturbance to the measured system. However, they suffer from some problems, in particular the variation of the material emissivity and perturbations introduced by extraneous radiations. Yttria stabilised Zirconia (YSZ) thermal barriers are known to be more emissive and opaque in the 8-14 µm spectral band, therefore we can take advantage using this spectral band in temperature measurement. Spectral emissivities of an YSZ sample were measured using two commercial pyrometers. And a method for adapting commercial wide-band pyrometers (generally used for low temperature measurements) for high temperature measurements of thermal barrier coatings was tested.

Amorphous metallic alloys can be produced by rapid quenching from the metallic liquid at sufficient cooling rates to suppress the nucleation and growth of crystalline phases. The cooling rates required depend on the alloy constitution; generally the necessary values are in the order of 106 Ks-1[1]. There has been considerable interest in the manufacture of Fe-based metallic glasses because they possess attractive combinations of properties such as high hardness, good abrasive wear resistance together with enhanced corrosion resistance and good magnetic properties. However, in order to achieve these cooling rates in metallic alloy melts, samples less than 50 ƒÝm thick must be suddenly brought into good thermal contact with an efficient heat sink. Hence, these amorphous alloys are frequently produced in the form of ribbon or powder. An alternative approach consists to employ thermal spraying to deposit the alloys directly onto a substrate, in the form of a protective coating about 200 ƒÝm thick. In this study, FeSi powder was chosen as feedstock material. It is characterized by its good magntic properties [2- 7]. In order to control temperature and velocity of the in-flight particles during the coating deposition, on-line measurement of flame sprayed FeSi particles were performed with high-speed two-color pyrometer used especially for the spray forming process. In the same time, a wide band spectral pyrometer (LAND INFRARED) was used to monitor the coating surface temperature to ensure achieving good cooling rates. X-ray diffraction patterns show that the FeSi coatings structure present a crystalline phase and magnetic measurements indicate the soft ferromagnetic character of this last. Abstract only; no full-text paper available.

Substrate temperature is nowadays recognized as a key parameter to optimise the coating quality in the thermal spraying process. Generally parts being processed are in motion and therefore non contact temperature measurement devices are appropriate. In contrast to thermocouples, optical pyrometers have several advantages. First, they are easy to install and second they do not bring any disturbance to the measured system. Meanwhile, several problems may arise with those devices which are not always considered as they should be and in particular the variation of material emissivity temperature, the effect of the reflection of the external radiation or the attenuation of the optical signal due to the variable transmissivity of the optical path. The aim of this work was to develop algorithms for correcting optical pyrometer temperature measurements during thermal spraying by taking into account emissivity variations and radiation reflexion on the components. Emissivity of some materials with respect to the specific spectral band of the pyrometer and the influence of reflected radiations were measured. Results are discussed in order to point out the influence of each parameter on the temperature value.