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Radiation pyrometry and its underlying principles of radiant heat transfer.

Title
Radiation pyrometry and its underlying principles of radiant heat transfer.
Author
Harrison, Thomas Randolph, 1891-
Publication
New York, Wiley [1960]

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Description
234 pages illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Radiation pyrometers
  • Heat > Transmission
  • heat transmission
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography.
Contents
  • GENERAL PRINCIPLES: The emission of radiant energy as result of temperature -- Emission, absorption, and temperature equilibrium -- Blackbodies and blackbody radiation -- Non-blackbody radiation -- Radiation pyrometers -- BLACKBODY RADIATION: Geometrical distribution of radian energy from blackbody source -- Formulation of blackbody radiation laws -- Relating among rate of blackbody emission, wavelength, and temperature -- Total radiant emission: Stefan-Boltzmann fourth-power law -- Blackbody radiant, intensity within a limited wave-length interval, emitted into solid angle w -- NON-BLACKBODY RADIATION: Emittance -- Spectral radiant intensity of non-blackbodies -- Total radiant intensity of non-blackbodies -- Non-blackbody radiation intensity within limited wavelength intervals -- Dependence of emittance upon angle -- Dependence of total emittance and band emittance upon temperature -- Interrelation of reflection, absorption, transmission, and emission of radiant energy -- Examples of reflection, absorption, transmission, and emission by glass -- Emission from different regions within a body -- Radiation received from objects by emission, reflection, and transmission -- Theory explaining variation, with wavelength, of reflectivity, emissivity, absorption index and absorption coefficient, and index of refraction --
  • RADIATION PYROMETERS: Types of radiation pyrometers -- Characteristics of thermoelectric radiation pyrometers -- Derication of radiation pyrometer equation -- Thermoelectric radiation pyrometer ambient temperature compensation -- Radiation pyrometer calibration -- Determination of values -- Effect of sighting through extra window -- Lens and mirror design and field of view -- The sapphire rod light guide radiation pyrometer -- Thermophile sensitivity in watts per square centimeter -- Radiation pyrometers having photosensitive detectors -- EMITTANCE CORRECTIONS: Selection of appropriate emittance values -- Principles involved in apply emittance corrections -- Emittance corrections obtained from curves -- Computation of emittance corrections by use of tables of millivolt equivalents -- Pyrometer readings from non-blackbodies surrounded by walls at higher or lower temperatures.
LCCN
60010294
OCLC
  • ocm00535530
  • 535530
  • SCSB-238872
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library