The Design and Performance of Heat Flux Sensor Calibration Equipment

Abstract

This paper introduces the methods of heat flux sensor calibration and gives detailed descriptions of absolute and transfer techniques. The transmission of standard heat flux is realized by comparing the calibrated heat flux sensor with standard heat flux sensor based on a flat plate furnace. Furthermore, we design a heat flux sensor calibration equipment using absolute method which contains a sodium heat pipe blackbody with 50-mm-diam cavities. Thus heat flux sensor calibration can be traceable to the temperature standard using the absolute equipment.