Summer 2010

The latest issue of Metromnia focuses on how NPL helps the UK manufacturing industry to remain competitive with innovation in measurement techniques and skills that allow companies to improve processes, quality, and reduce costs.

This issue highlights how NPL is assisting in a major carbon abatement project by developing in-situ monitoring of power plants; looks at a project to select materials suitable for new nuclear reactors that will reach temperatures above 1000 °C and sees how NPL's thermal imaging spotted a problem with the coating of a gas turbine vane, potentially saving a business hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Also included is an article on how a thermal camera helped a wetsuit manufacturer determine exactly how its products keep windsurfers warm; NPL's underwater assault course for testing Remotely Operated Vehicles, plus NPL announces the launch of its new Measurement Network to provide comprehensive access to the latest measurement science for industry and academia.