IR-EMPOWER 2024
Workshop on Infrared Emissivity Measurements — first edition
| Dates | 5–6 September 2024 |
| Venue | Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao, Spain |
| Organized by | Thermophysical Properties of Materials Research Group (Thermomat / HAIRL), UPV/EHU |
| Participating institutions | PTB · CAE · CEMHTI-CNRS · PROMES-CNRS · LTeN-CNRS · IMT Mines Albi · JRC Karlsruhe · INO-CNR · Vinča Institute · Czech Academy of Sciences (ISI Brno) · University of West Bohemia · Ruhr University Bochum · University of Wisconsin–Madison · University of Virginia · LASP Boulder · UPV/EHU |
| Original website | dulcet-sundae-44ceba.netlify.app (frozen legacy copy) |
The first IR-EMPOWER brought together, over two days in Bilbao, the European and American laboratories working on infrared emissivity measurement — metrology institutes, high-temperature facilities, and university groups — for twenty-one talks spanning techniques below and above 1000 K, cryogenic and ultra-high-temperature measurement, instruments, and open data. The talk “Towards an Open Community of Radiative Properties” (J. Gabirondo-López) outlined what would become EKHI and this site.
Organizing committee
Iñigo González de Arrieta · Telmo Echániz · Gabriel A. López · Raquel Fuente · Josu M. Igartua · Irene Urcelay-Olabarria — Thermophysical Properties of Materials Research Group, UPV/EHU
International advisory board
Jochen Manara (CAE, Würzburg) · Christian Monte (PTB, Berlin) · Olivier Rozenbaum (CEMHTI, Orléans) · Konstantinos Boboridis (JRC, Karlsruhe) · Audrey Soum-Glaude (PROMES, Odeillo)
Speakers
Plenary speakers
Young speakers
Invited speakers
Speaker photographs from the workshop records (© Thermomat / HAIRL, UPV/EHU) are being restored to this archive; initials are shown until each photograph is in place.
Program — Thursday 5 September 2024
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30–09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00–09:15 | Opening remarks | |
| 09:15–10:15 | Emissivity measurements below 1000 °C at PTB — an overview (plenary) | Albert Adibekyan (PTB, Berlin) |
| 10:45–11:45 | Applied metrological facilities for determining the emissivity in a wide temperature range (plenary) | Jochen Manara (CAE, Würzburg) |
| 11:45–12:15 | Measuring the spectral emissivity above 1000 K | David Urban (PTB, Berlin) |
| 13:45–14:15 | Direct measurement of infrared emission using Fourier-transform spectroscopy | Hongyan Mei (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| 14:15–14:45 | High-temperature emissivity of cerium oxide ceramics | Léo Gaillard (LTeN-CNRS, Nantes) |
| 15:15–15:45 | Developing a modular and high-performance infrared emissometer | Mireia Sainz-Menchón (UPV/EHU, Leioa) |
| 15:45–16:15 | Towards an open community of radiative properties | Jon Gabirondo-López (UPV/EHU, Leioa) |
| 16:15–16:45 | Radiative heat transfer measurements in packed beds | Matthias Tyslik (Ruhr University, Bochum) |
| 16:45–17:15 | Time-resolved emissivity of biomass fuel particles | Lukas Pörtner (Ruhr University, Bochum) |
| 19:00–22:00 | Conference dinner |
Program — Friday 6 September 2024
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00–09:30 | Spectral emittance of ceramics for solar receivers | Elisa Sani (INO-CNR, Florence) |
| 09:30–10:00 | Photo-thermal properties of coatings | Zdeněk Veselý (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen) |
| 10:00–10:30 | Measuring apparent emissivity of semitransparent samples | Julian Gieseler (LASP, Boulder & PTB, Berlin) |
| 11:00–11:30 | Thermo-radiative properties of materials | Leire del Campo (CEMHTI-CNRS, Orléans) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Simultaneous measurement of temperature and emissivity under unconventional conditions | Domingos De Sousa Meneses (CEMHTI-CNRS, Orléans) |
| 12:00–12:30 | Hemispherical total and spectral emissivity by pulse heating | Nenad Milošević (Vinča Institute, Belgrade) |
| 14:00–14:30 | Emissivity measurement at cryogenic temperatures | Tomáš Králík (Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno) |
| 14:30–15:00 | High melting temperature materials | Konstantinos Boboridis (Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe) |
| 15:30–16:00 | Measurement of thermo-optical properties | Christophe Escape (PROMES-CNRS, Odeillo) |
| 16:00–16:30 | Advanced techniques in radiative properties | Yannick Le Maoult (IMT Mines, Albi) |
| 16:30–17:00 | Closing remarks |
Support
Organized by the TPPM Research Group and UPV/EHU, with institutional support from the Basque Government and sponsorship from Bruker and the Coblentz Society.
Continuation
The series continues: IR-EMPOWER 2026, 28–29 September 2026, CAE Würzburg — registration open →
Provenance
This archive page was compiled from the original IR-EMPOWER 2024 website (linked above, preserved as the frozen legacy copy, including speaker photographs) on 2026-06-11. Speaker affiliations are as of September 2024.