J Ballestrín et al 2004 Metrologia 41 314 doi:10.1088/0026-1394/41/4/013
J Ballestrín1, C A Estrada2, M Rodríguez-Alonso1, C Pérez-Rábago2, L W Langley3 and A Barnes3
Show affiliationsThis paper demonstrates a calorimetric procedure for calibrating high-heat-flux sensors. The results are in agreement with calibrations obtained using black-body radiation. However, the proposed method has the potential of being more accurate than traditional approaches. This new procedure calibrates sensors to measure correctly under conditions of concentrated solar radiation. At present, the thermal balance calibration technique in the laboratory is limited to solar irradiances of approximately 100 kW m−2. The next step is to demonstrate this methodology to higher irradiances under non-laboratory conditions in the CIEMAT solar furnace at Plataforma Solar de Almería.
07.07.Df Sensors (chemical, optical, electrical, movement, gas, etc.); remote sensing
Instrumentation and measurement
Issue 4 (August 2004)
Received 19 April 2004
Published 30 June 2004
J Ballestrín et al 2004 Metrologia 41 314
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