Equipment

The ThermALab is equipped for a wide range of thermal measurements, including a wide range of thermocouples, multimeters, wave generators and the capability of small machining.
Advanced instruments are dedicated to the following areas of application:

IR Thermography
FLIR T650SC IR camera
Germanium optical window
Black body Omega BB 702

Spectrophotometry
Perkin Elmer Lambda 950 UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer, equipped with

  • Standard module
  • 150 mm Integrating Sphere
  • URA (Universal Reflectance Accessory)
  • ARTA (Absolute Reflectance and Trasmission Analyzer) by OMT Solutions BV, for BDRF/BDTF measurements

Perkin Elmer Frontier FT-IR Spectrometer, equipped with

  • IR specular reflection set by OMT Solutions BV, for glass emissivity measurements

Thermal Conductivity

C-Therm TCi Thermal conductivity analyzer, Modified Transient Plane Source method, calibrated for the analysis of

  • Homogeneous solids (0 – 500 W/mK)
  • Liquids
  • Powders
  • Textiles

TA Instruments FOX 50, Heat Flow Meter, for the steady state analysis of solids (0.1 – 10 W/mK) even under vacuum.

Forced convection
Closed circuit wind tunnel Stem ISI Impianti
Open circuit custom wind tunnel for convection analysis in internal geometry
Thermostatic bath
Steam generator Nordmann Engineering

Optical table Melles Griot

Cluster

Softwares
Comsol
TracePro
Fluent
Matlab
Labview
Autocad
SolidWorks