ResearchNPL's Thermal Performance team provides a wide range of measurement facilities for characterising thermophysical properties of materials and the heat transfer within engineering structures.
- The NPL Thermal Performance Team is contributing to a European project that will provide improved metrology and uncertainties on thermophysical properties of materials used in power plants.
- The NPL Thermal Performance Team is undertaking research that focuses on resolving traceability issues with transient thermal measurement techniques used in industry and academia. These techniques are currently used up to 2800 °C, but the reference materials are only available up to 500 °C.
- NPL is designing a new facility that will provide significantly reduced uncertainties and expanded the scope for thermal conductivity measurements on composites, polymers and ceramics from -100 °C to 250 °C.
- The NPL Thermal Performance Team is contributing to a European project that will provide the nuclear industry with improved thermophysical properties data up to 2000 °C.
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