Panoramic View of the Heat Flux Inside an Insulated Vehicle by Infrared Thermography

An IR camera is mounted on a pan-tilt head and automatically driven to map the temperature of the inner walls of the insulated box on a refrigerated vehicle. The vehicle is introduced in a test station where special conditions are applied, in such a way to maintain an inner-outer temperature difference of around 25 °C. The objective of this work is that of complementing the above qualitative results obtained by IR thermography, with an evaluation of the heat flux flowing through the wall, possibly at the pixel level.