CA2067248C - Multi-wavelength pyrometer - Google Patents

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CA2067248C
CA2067248C CA002067248A CA2067248A CA2067248C CA 2067248 C CA2067248 C CA 2067248C CA 002067248 A CA002067248 A CA 002067248A CA 2067248 A CA2067248 A CA 2067248A CA 2067248 C CA2067248 C CA 2067248C
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Raoul Francois Constant Selfslag
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The invention relates to a multiwavelengths pyrometer for measuring the temperature and emission rate of a surface above 900 K. This pyrometer contains several radiation detectors which are sensitive to different wavelengths .lambda.l....lambda.i....lambda.n and a data processor which receives the output signals of the radiation detectors after digitalization, and deduces therefrom, by means of the Wien-Planck law, the temperature, assuming that the surface is an ideal black body. Then, the emission rate is computed from these temperature values according to an approximation law as a function of temperature and the wavelength, and from this the desired temperature is computed. According to the invention, the differences between the pyrometer signals and the pyrometer signals to be expected due to the assumed emission rate and the desired temperature deduced therefrom are computed for several of the approximation laws and the different wavelengths and then that approximation law is selected which represents for all wavelengths the lowest sum of the squares of these differences and the highest precision of temperature and emission rate.

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A MULTIWAVELENGTI~S PYROMETER
The invention relates to a multiwavelengths pyrometer for measuring the temperature and emission rate of a surface above 900 K comprising several radiation detectors which are sensitive to different wavelengths ~.1...~.i...~,n and a data processor which receives the output signals of the radiation detectors after digitalization, and deduces therefrom, by means of the Wien-Planck law, the temperature, assuming that the surface is an ideal black body, the emission rate being then computed from these temperature values according to an approximation law as a function of temperature and the wavelength, the desired temperature being deduced therefrom.
From the journal "Temperature", vol. 5, 1982, pages 439 to 446, a rapid pyrometer of the type mentioned above is known. An optical system is directed onto the surface to be measured, which system splits up into six channels by means of a glass fiber bundle, and is led to the photodiodes via narrow band filters. The detector signals are then digitalized and evaluated in a processor.
The evaluation is based on the Wien-Planck equation for black bodies L = C1.~. 5[exp(C2/~,T)-1)] 1 (1) where L is the beam density at the wavelength ~., C1 and C2 are constant terms and T is the temperature of the black body., Since the surface to be examined is normally no ideal black body, the emission rate E must be taken into account, which represents the ratio between the beam density of the black body and the real body.
This emission rate is a function of temperature and wavelength and can be expressed by a Taylor series of the following kind:
In E = a0 + a17~ + a27~2 + . . . ( 2 ) According to experience, the dependance on wavelength in limited wavelength ranges is a steady function, so that the series (2) can be cut off after a few terms.
In the cited article, it is thus proposed to choose a linear approximation of the function (2) and to evaluate res-pectively pairs of wavelengths out of the six measured values of the beam density according to the six wavelengths of the pyrometer and then to find out the temperature by the analysis of the squares of the deviations of the different results.
It has been found out that in difficult cases this method leads to results which do not permit a reliable state-ment as to their precision.
Thus, pyrometrical measurements of highly reflective surfaces, where the emission rate is very low and very un-stable due to possible surface reactions (for example aluminum during metallurgical treatments), are reputed to be difficult.
It is thus the aim of the invention to improve a mul-tiwavelengths pyrometer of the kind cited above in such a way that the computation complexity and the residual error are diminished and that usable results can be obtained even under very unfavorable measurement conditions.
According to the invention, this aim is attained by the fact that the differences between the pyrometer signals and the pyrometer signals to be expected due to the assumed emission rate and the desired temperature deduced therefrom are computed for several of the approximation laws and the different wavelengths, and that then that approximation law is selected which represents for all the wavelengths the lowest sum of the squares of these differences and the highest preci-sion of temperature and emission rate.
Preferably, the processor contains a memory in which a data bank is established for the emission rate of certain materials as a function of temperature and wavelength, the processor also using this data bank for computing the tempera-ture when the same materials are subjected to a pyrometer measurement.

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The invention will now be described more in detail with reference to two figures.
Figure 1 shows a flow diagram for the operations to be carried out by the processor.
Figure 2 shows schematically a pyrometer according to the invention.
A six wavelengths pyrometer 1, as it is described in the above-mentioned essay in "Temperature", delivers simul-taneously six radiation intensity values of a body, or its surface respectively, observed by the pyrometer, the wave-lengths used in practice lying between 400 and 2000 nm. The bandwidth of a measurement channel lies under 100 nm.
The measurement values which are proportional to in-tensity are obtained in a known way in photodiodes and then applied to a processor 2 in digitalized form. The latter firstly finds out whether the signals are sufficiently stable, i.e. whether the noise level is sufficiently low. Only if this is the case, the temperature can be computed with a suffi-ciently small error (signal standard deviation: So). Then the law for the determination of the emission rate E is chosen according to equation 2. It must be differentiated between a model of zero order, in which In E is a constant a, indepen-dent of the wavelength, a model of first order, in which In E
linearily depends on the wavelength (the law is defined by the determination of a0 and al) and models of higher order, in which further members of the Taylor series must be evaluated.
First, a model of first order is taken as basis and a0 and al and thus the emission rate for the six wavelengths are determined, a0 and al having the same value in all six deter-mination equations. Basically, the evaluation consists in a sub-routine which minimizes the sum of the squares of the deviations between the measured signals and the beam density value computed by means of the emission value defined by a0 and al, and which evaluates the resulting standard deviation SK of the fitting procedure.

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The expected temperature and emission rate errors are computed as the differentials which are obtained by successive incrementation of the signals at the respective error and by repeated computation of temperature and emission rate. It is recommended to control whether a model of zero order would also be applicable, since i-t offers a smaller absolute error in the temperature detection. This is the case when the con-stant al from equation 2 lies below a given value, i.e. when the emission rate practically does not depend on the wave-length. In this case, six independent temperature measurements are obtained for the different wavelengths.
The choice of models of higher order leads to a reduction of the standard deviation SK, but not forcibly of the temperature error. On the contrary, when SK reaches the value of S~, any following increase of the model order (over-fitting) results mostly not in a lesser, but in a higher im-precision of the temperature. When during error evaluation it is found out that the error increases, the optimal model has been found and the constants al, a2,...a~ have been deter-mined.
If the error analysis has shown that the error is especially small, then it is recommended to memorize for later utilization the group of curves connecting the wavelength and the emission rate. Thus, a data bank organized according to the kind of materials of the surface to be examined is estab-lished which can be made use of lateron. This is especially valuable when during a later measurement there are very unfa-vorable measuring conditions, for example colour differen-tiated vapour development in the optical path of the pyrometer or instabilities in the electronics due to high environmental temperature. In this case, the pyrometer measurement values are simply compared to groups of curves evaluated at earlier -times and the temperature can be directly computed therefrom.
Such a data bank fed by the least disturbed signals is shown in Figure 2 with the reference 3. Also other unicolored pyro-meters can be operated with the data of this data bank in parallel.
With the pyrometer according to the invention, the desired evaluations can be carried out during a millisecond even under unfavorable conditions, so that on a screen 4 tem-porary evolution of the temperature or the emission rate can be shown practically in real time also for rapidly developing processes, such as for example the pulse heating by means of a laser. This opens new possibilities for the analysis of rapid-ly developing processes in the temperature range above 700 K
and up to 10.000 K.

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1. A method for measuring temperature and emission rate of a surface above 900 K by means of a pyrometer comprising several radiation detectors which are sensitive to different wavelengths .lambda.l... .lambda.i... .lambda.n and a data processor which receives output signals of the radiation detectors after A-D conversion, and deduces therefrom, by means of Wien-Planck law, temperature values, assuming that the surface is an ideal black body, the emission rate being then computed from these temperature values according to a selected one of different approximation laws as a function of said temperature values at the corresponding wavelengths and from this said temperature is computed, characterized in that differences between said output signals and output signals to be expected due to an assumed emission rate and the temperature value deduced therefrom are computed for several of the approximation laws and the different wavelengths, and that then that an approximation law is selected which represents for all the wavelengths the lowest sum of the squares of these differences and the highest precision of temperature and emission rate.
2. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the data processor contains a memory in which a data bank is established for the emission rate of certain materials as a function of temperature and wavelength, the data processor using this data bank for computing the temperature when the same materials are subjected to a pyrometer measurement.
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