2016

May

The 36-month final project partner meeting was held at NPL on 11 May.

In addition, a final Stakeholder Meeting and Technical Workshop was held on 12 May. The full project team and several key stakeholders were in attendance.

The Stakeholder Meeting / Workshop Agenda is shown below. Click on links to download presentations (all PDFs).

Agenda (with timings)

• Welcome to NPL / Introductions
• Introduction to the EMRP THERMO Project
• The state-of-the-art HTGHP for thermal conductivity measurement
  A brief overview of the GHP systems developed by each NMI partner for the Thermo project (five minutes presentation for each institute):
  • NPL
  • LNE
  • MKEH
  • CMI
• Thermo Project: Assessment of high temperature thermal conductivity reference materials, inter-comparison protocols and methodology / early indications of results (if available)
• HTGHP Workshop - Good Practice Guide on performance checking and Validation of HTGHP
• HTGHP Workshop - Effect of surface flatness and surface thermal contact resistance on thermal conductivity measurements of rigid insulation/refractory material:
  • CMI
  • MKEH
• HTGHP Workshop - Challenges in thermal conductivity measurements of thin polymer composites
• HTGHP Workshop - Challenges in measuring thermal conductivity of thin (multi-layered) thermal insulation materials
• HTGHP Workshop - Good Practice Guide on selection, preparation and calibration of temperature sensors to be used in HTGHP
• HTGHP Workshop - Overview of uncertainty factors in HTGHP
• CEN TC89/WG14 meeting - Transfer knowledge from EMRP Thermo
• Future works needed and proposals

2015

December

The 30-month project partner meeting for EMRP Thermo was held on 1-2 December 2015 at CMI in Prague.

Day 1 (1 December) was held at CMI's Botanice Street site in Prague city centre and included a CEN WG meeting attended by external stakeholders.

Day 2 (2 December) was hosted at CMI's main laboratory in Radiová Street, and included a comprehensive tour of CMI's thermal materials laboratory and a full assessment of CMI's thermal conductivity measurement apparatus (Guarded Hot Plate and Heat Flow Meter).

May

The 24-month project partner meeting was held at PTB in Braunschweig, Germany on 12-13 May.

Presentations and updates were given by all JRP partners and a workshop on PTB's Transient Hot Bridge thermal conductivity measurement technique was given by Dr Ulf Hammerschmidt.

2014

November

The 18-month Project Meeting was held on 4 and 5 November 2014 at NPL, and the first Stakeholder Committee was held on 6 November 2014 at NPL. PDF presentations from the Stakeholder Committee can be downloaded below:

• CMI:
  • CMI In-house Designed High-Temperature Guarded Hot Plate
  • Temperature Sensors and Heater Plate Materials Suitable for Use in High-Temperature Guarded Hot Plate
• LNE:
  • Perturbations of Thermal Conductivity Measurements with a GHP due to Thin Samples, Emissivity Effects and Transparency of Materials
  • LNE's High Temperature Guarded Hot-Plate
• MKEH:
  • MKEH In-house Designed High-Temperature Thermal Conductivity Measurement Apparatus
• NIST:
  • Sensitivity Study of the NIST 500 mm Guarded-Hot-Plate Apparatus: A Methodology based on Orthogonal Designs
• NPL:
  • Provisional Assessment of Candidate High Temperature Thermal Conductivity Reference Materials
  • NPL In-house Designed High-Temperature Guarded Hot-Plate
  • Metrology for Thermal Protection Material - Project Overview
  • Design of the NPL Small Guarded Hot Plate
• PTB:
  • Measurement Uncertainty of High-Temperature Guarded Hot Plate Instruments
  • Industrial High-Temperature Thermal Conductivity Measurements

August

Based on the work in the EMRP 'Thermo' project, LNE and CMI will deliver three presentations and one paper at the 20th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties (ECTP 2014).

May

The 12-month Project Meeting was held in May 2014 at MKEH, Hungary. The second workshop on Uncertainty Budget of High Temperature Guarded Hot Plate was also held.

April

On 28 and 29 April 2014, NPL submitted two papers and delivered three presentations based on the work in the EMRP 'Thermo' project at the 32nd International Thermal Conductivity Conference that was held at the Purdue University, Indiana, USA. NPL also co-hosted a workshop with NIST, PTB and NMIJ in the same conference and presented 'Europe Viewpoint - EURAMET Project on Thermal Conductivity Measurement of High-Temperature Insulation'. The title of the workshop is 'Workshop on High-Temperature Measurements of Thermal Transport Properties: A Perspective from Several National Metrology Institutes'.

Conference website

The 'Thermo' project was presented in the 'EMRP projects on thermophysical properties' by Jean-Remy Filtz from LNE, France at the EURAMET TC-T meeting in Cavtat/Dubrovnik, Croatia in early April.

2013

November

The 6MM project meeting was held in November 2013 at LNE, France. The first workshop on Uncertainty Budget of High Temperature Guarded Hot Plate was also held.

October

A presentation titled 'EURAMET project on thermal conductivity measurement of high-temperature insulation' will be delivered to the BIPM CCT WG9 at TEMPMEKO 2013 conference in October.

August

Standardization and Metrology: Collaboration on thermal performance for protection materials (EMRP SIB52)

Ensuring a fast uptake of new findings from metrology into measurement standards is important for safety and innovation in society and industry. Two bodies further developing this collaboration are the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and EURAMET. EURAMET's current European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) offers possibilities for collaboration.

For details, please see the EURAMET news frontpage

July

CEN/TC89 Decision 517/2013 to collaborate with EMRP Thermo

European members of CEN/TC89 voted to endorse Decision 517/2013, which proposed that CEN would collaborate with the consortium of EMRP project SIB52 on high temperature thermal conductivity metrology for protection materials. The decision means that the knowledge generated in the EMRP project will be directly disseminated to the new measurement standards.

June

Successful launch of the EMRP project on thermal protection materials

An EMRP project on thermal protection materials started on 1 June 2013 and a successful kick-off meeting was held on 12 and 13 June 2013 at NPL.

The research within this EURAMET joint research project receives funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, ERA-NET Plus, under Grant Agreement No. 217257.