Sensors & Electronics
Awards & Recognition
FLC Awards
1990 - Steel Temperature-Measuring Device
Developers: Donald M. Boyd, Douglas K. Lemon, Gary E. Spanner
This technology determines the internal temperature of steel products by measuring the velocity of sound in the steel object. The device could save the U.S. steel industry up to 5.5 million tons of coal or 90 billion cubic feet of natural gas each year and up to a million dollars a day.
Excerpted from PNNL FLC webpage.