Exergen Global's Reflective Cone Only Device to Prevent Temperature Errors Caused by Ambient Radiation and Emissivity
Custom-Designed Cone works with Exergen Non-Contact IRt\c Sensors, Ensures High-Quality Processing for INdustrial Applications
WATERTOWN, Mass., and ZIJTAART, the Netherlands, February 26, 2015 Today, Exergen Global introduced its Reflective Cone, a custom-designed tool that works with the companys IRt/c infrared sensors to provide the industrys most accurate surface temperature readings, ensuring high-quality processing for a wide range of industrial applications. The Cone, the only device of its kind on the market today, is ideally suited for semiconductor, printing, plastics and other production processes in which high ambient radiation and reflection can prevent accurate surface temperature measurement.
Many industrial applications require very accurate control of the production surface (e.g. the drum, blanket, silicon wafer or other) temperature to ensure high quality processing. Yet, during production, the emissivity of the surface its power to emit heat relative to (ambient) radiation it reflects -- can vary considerably due to substrate properties, surrounding radiation, and ambient condition changes.
Most conventional IR thermometry devices do not account for those frequent and sometimes significant changes in surface emissivity, resulting in less accurate temperature readings. Exergens Cone overcomes this problem because its custom-fitted conical design prevents ambient radiation from entering the surface being measured, and reflects emitted radiation and directs it to the sensor detector. By decreasing ambient reflections and emissivity variations, the Cone reduces temperature measurement errors by about a factor of ten.
Our customers frequently encounter challenges related to temperature control after they have designed sophisticated equipment specific to their production processes. The issues may be inherent in the materials used in production, the process itself, or another issue entirely it differs in nearly every instance, said Dr. Francesco Pompei, Founder and CEO of Exergen Corp. We work closely with our customers engineering teams, examining every step of the manufacturing process to understand where thermometry may come into play. We identify the issue and then in a combined effort - custom-design solutions to address the specific needs of the equipment, the application and the environment.
Published by Exergen on Mar 18, 2015