Temperature
Key Equipment List
- Suite of environmentally controlled laboratories
- Fixed point temperature cells (mercury, TP water, gallium, tin, zinc)
- Reference PRTs
- Reference thermocouples
- High accuracy temperature bridges
- High temperature furnaces
- Temperature baths
- Votsch temperature / humidity chamber
Capabilities
List of instruments calibrated by NML:
- Block ‘calibrators’
- Chart recorders
- Dial temperature gauges
- Fixed point cells
- Liquid-in-glass thermometers, mercury filled
- Liquid-in-glass thermometers, spirit filled
- Resistance thermometers, calibrated by comparison
- Resistance thermometers, fixed point calibration
- ‘Smart’ card readers
- Temperature indicators and recorders, with temperature sensors
Measurement | Range | Best Measurement Uncertainty (sample) |
By temperature | -80°C to 0°C | ± 0.006°C (6 mK) |
Comparison | 0°C to 80°C | ± 0.005°C (5 mK) |
80°C to 200°C | ± 0.01°C (10 mK) | |
200°C to 250°C | ± 0.015° (15 mK) | |
250°C to 500°C | ± 0.03°C (30mK) | |
500°C to 1100°C | ± 1.0°C | |
1100°C to 1600°C | ± 2.0°C |
Contact:
Dubhaltach Mac Lochlainn
NSAI National Metrology Laboratory,
Glasnevin,
Dublin 9, Ireland
T: +353 1 808 2607
F: +353 1 808 2603
E: dubhaltach.maclochlainn@nsai.ie
Humidity
Key Equipment List
- Environmentally controlled laboratory
- Thunder Scientific Humidity Generator
- Range of MBW reference Dewpoint meters
- Votsch Environmental Chamber
Capabilities
List of instruments calibrated by NML:
- Dew point instruments
- Relative humidity instruments
- Relative humidity instruments, temperature sensors incorporated
- MeasurementRangeBest Measurement Uncertainty (sample)
- Relative Humidity10% to 95% 0°C to 70°C± 0.8% RH
Contact
Plunkett Cromwell
NSAI National Metrology Laboratory,
Glasnevin,
Dublin 9, Ireland
T +353 1 808 2622
F + 353 1 808 2603
E plunkett.cromwell@nsai.ie