Dual-band pyrometry for emissivity and temperature measurements of gray surfaces at ambient temperature: The effect of pyrometer and background temperature uncertainties

A dual-band pyrometry model for target temperature (240–360 K) and emissivity measurement was developed, in which two pyrometers with different spectral bands are surrounded by an enclosure at a given background temperature. Nine equal-power spectral bands were selected for the pyrometers from wavelengths between 8 and 14 μm. The Monte Carlo method was used to compute the dual-band measurement uncertainties of temperature and emissivity caused by the propagation of the uncertainties associated with the temperatures of the two pyrometers and the temperature of the background. It was found that the rate of decrease of dual-band measurement uncertainties with increasing difference between target and background temperatures decreases with increasing target temperature. Considering the uncertainty of the background temperature, it was found that dual-band measurement uncertainties are virtually not affected by the background temperature uncertainty when the background temperature is lower than the target temperature, and dual-band measurement uncertainties increase significantly with increasing background temperature uncertainty when the background temperature is higher than the target temperature.