Activities

The Laboratory for Temperature carries out the tasks related to:

  • Realization, conservation, maintenance and improvement of the national standard for temperature in Montenegro;
  • Providing metrological traceability in the field of temperature in Montenegro by transferring the unit of temperature from the national measurement standard to secondary and working standards;
  • Development of measurement methods for transferring the unit of temperature;
  • Calibration of in-glass thermometers, sensors with display unit, thermocouples, air temperature thermometers, climate and temperature chambers as well as on-field calibrations
  • Participation in inter-laboratory comparisons;
  • Defining the prescribed technical and metrological requirements for determining the type of a measuring instrument used for temperature measuring instruments;
  • Verification of medical thermometers.

National Measurement Standard

National standard for thermodynamic temperature:

  • 25 Ω Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometer (SPRT), manufactured by Fluke Hart Scientific, type 5681-S, with measurement range from -190 °C to +660 °C, of measurement uncertainty 3 mK;
  • Thermocouple (TC) manufactured by Fluke Hart Scientific, type S and R, with measurement range from 0 °C to +1450 °C, of measurement uncertainty from 0,3 °C to 0,6 °C.

Calibration of Measurement Standards

Accredited area

  • Calibration of liquid-in-glass thermometers from -80 ºC to +278 ºC;
  • Calibration of sensors with display unit from -80 ºC to +650 ºC;
  • Calibration of PRT/IPRT from -80 ºC to +650 ºC;
  • Calibration of thermocouples from -80 ºC to +650 ºC;
  • Calibration of air temperature thermometers from -75 ºC to +150 ºC;
  • Calibration of temperature chambers from -100 ºC to +200 ºC;
  • Calibration of furnaces from 200 ºC to 1000 ºC;
  • Calibration of climate chambers up to 2000 l from 10 ºC to 70 ºC;
  • Calibration of temperature media (baths) from -80 ºC to 150 ºC.

Unaccredited area

  • Calibration of contact thermometers from 650 °C to 1200 °C.

Laboratory for Temperature’s Scope of Accreditation

Verification of Measuring Instruments

The Laboratory for Temperature carries out examination of temperature measuring instruments in order to determine compliance with the prescribed metrological requirements and verify medical and veterinary thermometers.

Type Approval of Measuring Instruments

In order to verify compliance with the prescribed technical and metrological requirements for determining the type of a measuring instrument, the Laboratory for Temperature carries out examination of measuring instruments in the field of temperature measurement, in accordance with the Decree on legal measuring instruments that are subject to mandatory verification or type approval (Official Gazette of Montenegro 81/09) as follows:

  • Thermal energy measuring instruments;
  • Medical and veterinary thermometers.

Traceability Scheme

Contact

Head of Laboratory:
Tanja Vukićević, Graduate Degree in Engineering
tel: +382 20 601 360
+382 20 601 361
fax: +382 20 634 651
e-mail: tanja.vukicevic@metrologija.gov.me

Deputy Head of Laboratory:
Tatjana Raičević, Graduate Degree in Engineering
tel: +382 20 601 360
+382 20 601 361
fax: +382 20 634 651
e-mail: tanja.raicevic@metrologija.gov.me