The multiband MBP 98A pyrometer developed for non-contact temperature measurement of objects with unknown and wavelength-dependent emissivity has been presented in this paper. The pyrometer was designed using single thermoelectrically cooled PbS detector of spectral band of 1-2.5 Ilm and 8 narrow-band optical filters. It enables temperature measurement of objects at temperature within a range of 500°C-1200°C and a speed of 75 Hz. It can be used for controlling various industrial-technological processes as well as in research works for testing of classic singleband pyrometers in temperature measurement of objects whose emissivity depends on the wavelength and time.

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A model of the errors of temperature measurement with multiband systems was developed. Calculations of these errors for some measurement conditions and systems were carried out. It was shown that multiband systems are capable of producing accurate results of noncontact temperature measurement only in a limited number of applications and that to have small internal errors, they must be designed and built with much greater care than in the case of typical single-band systems.

The noise-equivalent temperature difference is a measure of the detector-noise-limited sensitivity of single-band IR systems for noncontact temperature measurement. However, because its definition is based on the signal-to-noise ratio in a single detector channel, the notion of noise-equivalent temperature difference must be generalized in case of dual-band or multiband IR systems. A new measure of temperature-measurement sensitivity is proposed that can be used to describe single-band, dual-band, and multiband IR measurement systems. With this measure a comparison of temperature-measurement accuracy among single-band, dual-band, and multiband systems was carried out.

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