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In Situ Surface Temperature Measurement in a Conveyor Belt Furnace via Inline Infrared Thermography

Daniel Ourinson¹, Gernot Emanuel¹, Gunnar Dammaß², Harald Müller³, Florian Clement¹, Stefan W. Glunz¹

¹Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, ²InfraTec GmbH, ³Rehm Thermal Systems GmbH

This protocol describes how to install an infrared camera into a conveyor belt furnace, conduct a customer correction of a factory calibrated IR camera, and evaluate the spatial surface temperature distribution of an object of interest. The example objects are industrial silicon solar cells.