The development of science and technology is closely related to the use of measuring instruments. Measurements are one of the ways to know nature as a process and help to make scientific discoveries and apply these discoveries in production and technology. Measurements are also of great importance as the only means of monitoring technological processes in various fields of industry and production processes. Properly organized measurements ensure the reliability, economy and convenience of conducting production processes, as well as provide opportunities for their extensive automation. In addition, it is not possible to provide safe and trouble-free maintenance of production processes and facilities without using measurement tools. Today, the national economy of the country is provided with a large arsenal of measuring instruments of both domestic and foreign production, from the simplest primary converters and measuring devices to complex automatic tools and systems that allow controlling technological devices and complex production using information and computers. A wide variety of measuring tools requires the right choice for specific purposes. In this regard, one of the important issues is the question of their metrological assurance. Accurate and correct measurements performed during technological processes lead to an increase in product quality, a reduction in waste products, as well as a minimization of time and material losses. For this reason, ensuring the accuracy of temperature measurements performed in technological processes is one of the most urgent issues today. The research work has shown that the most important part of the error of the temperature measurements is the influence of the environment on the measurement process. For this reason, the amount of this effect was determined and analyzed during the research work.

As we know, one of the most important and important issues in the implementation of technological processes is the implementation of accurate and correct temperature measurements. During the research, attention was paid to the measurement errors in temperature measurements of technological processes using thermocouples and methods of minimizing those errors. In addition, errors in thermocouple temperature measurements were briefly discussed, and for temperatures limited to a certain range, the T-type thermocouple achieved several times less error than the allowable error specified in the normative documents. It is known that when describing thermocouples in the technical literature, first of all, industrial devices with high temperature coefficient and medium class accuracy are considered. Also, as we know, in domestic applications, the temperature difference between the measurement and the reference node varies mainly within the minimum threshold range. Therefore, if the main source of error is the internal reference temperature compensation in the measuring instrument, it is almost impossible to determine the proportion of errors due to the thermocouple itself. The study found that the measurement error can be significantly reduced when determining the temperature of technological processes using an external reference node. At the same time, since the special application of temperature measurements of technological processes covers the measurement of indoor and outdoor temperatures, the errors due to the effect of radiation on the sensor from the surrounding surfaces are many times higher than the allowable error. For this reason, tools have been proposed to assess the radiation effects on typical thermocouples, along with proposals for modification of thermocouple sensors to reduce the potential radiation exposure and thus increase measurement accuracy.

Processing of oil, gas and gas condensate is one of the most widespread areas of modern chemical-technological processes. Due to the safety of chemical and technological process management, strict requirements have been set for the quality of processes in the oil and gas refining and petrochemical industries. During chemical-technological processes in the oil and gas industry, the fractional composition of the product, the typical boiling point, the octane number of gasoline, the cetane number of diesel fuel, the evaporation temperature, the ignition temperature and other parameters must be determined with special accuracy. This set of characteristics is used in the laboratory assessment of the quality of oil, oil products and gas condensate. Temperature measurements performed during such processes must have maximum accuracy. For this reason, the determination of temperature by thermocouples in the above-mentioned chemical processes has been mathematically studied and evaluated during the research.