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Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.REAFFIRMED 2004FOR CURRENT COMMITTEE PERSONNELPLEASE E-MAIL CSasme.orgPART 8 I INSTRUMENTS Temperature AND Measurement APPARATUS Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.Library of Congress Catalog No.74-76612 No part of this document may be reproduced in any form,in an electronic retrieval system or otherwise,without the prior written permission of the publisher.Copyright,Q 1974,by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rinted in the United States of America Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.FOREWORD The Scope of the work of Technical Committee No.19 on Instruments andApparatus is to describe the various types of instruments and methods of measurement likely to be prescribed in any of the ASUE Performance Test Codes.Such details as the limits and sources of error,method of calibra-tion,precautions,etc.,as will determine their range of application are given.Only the methods of measurement and instruments,including instructions for their use,spec-ified in the individual test codes are mandatory.Other methods of measurement and instruments,that may be treated in the Supplements on Instruments and Apparatus,shall not be used unless agreeable to all the parties to the test.This Supplement on Instruments and Apparatus,Part 3 on Temperature Measurement,replaces an older one published during the period from 19521961.Since that time the technology of tem-perature measurement has so changed and broadened that the earlier material has become obsolete.This necessitated a complete revision on the Supplement resulting in the currently expanded and more comprehensive document.In accordance with the established policy of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers concerning the inclusion of metric(SI or International System)units in all ASME publications,this document includes an Appendix of appropriate conversion factors which will enable the user to utilize both systems.These conversions are listed in the Appendix as they first appear through-out the Supplement.Extensive use was made of the“ASME Orientation and Guide forUseof Metric Units,Third Edition”and The ASTM Metric Practice Guide E380-92.”These two publications should be consulted for additional material concerning conversions from the US system to SI units.This Edition was approved by the Performance Test Codes Committee on July 12,19 73.It was approved and adopted by the Council of the Society by action of the Board on Codes and Standards on May 29,!974.111 Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.This page intentionally left blank.PERSONNEL OF PERFORMANCE TEST CODES COMMITTEE NO.19.3 ON INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS R.F.Abrahamsen,Chairmm K.W.Woodfield,Secretary Il.F.Abrahamsen,Manager,Technical and Administrative Services,Kreisinger Research Lab-oratory,Combustion Engineering Inc.,1000 Prospect Hill Road,Windsor,Ct.06095 R.P-Benedict,Fellow Engineer,STDE,Westinghouse Electric Corp.,Lester Branch Post Office 9175,Philadelphia,Pa.19113 J.T.Callahan,Research Mechanical Engineer,Naval Ship Engineering Center,Philadelphia Divi-sion,Applied Physics Department,Philadelphia,Pa.19112 G.0.Nutter,Assistant Director,Instrumentation Systems Center,University of Wisconsin-Madi-son,1500 Johnson Drive,Madison,Wi.53706 K.W.Woodfield,Professor of Mechanical Engineering,General Moton Institute,1700 West Third Avenue,Flint,Mi.48502 V Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.R.P.Benedict W.A.Crandall R.C.Dannettel C.A.Dewey V.F.Estcourt A.S.Grimes K.G.Grothues Personnel of Performance Test Codes Committee K.C.Cotton,Chairman J.H.Fernandes,Vice Chairman J.L.Hilke E.L.Knoedler Paul Leung F.H.Light S.W.Lovejoy W.G.McLean S.L.Morse J.W.Murdock L.C.Neate W.C.Osborne W.A.Pollock J.H.Potter C.B.Scharp J.F.Sebald J.C.Westcott vi Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is pe