A procedure for evaluating uncertainty associated with averaging or totalisation calculations on time-sampled data in gas energy measurements

Kutin, Jože (author), Bobovnik, Gregor (author), Gugole, Federica (author), Veen, Adriaan M.H. van der (author)

The measurement uncertainty attributed to gas energy measurements includes, among others, a contribution for the calculation of the average/total from time-sampled data. The aim of this study is to establish and verify a procedure for the evaluation of this component of uncertainty, which considers contributions related to the deterministic and random variations of the measured data. The first step of the proposed procedure is a separation of deterministic and random components via time-domain filtering, followed by the evaluation of the uncertainty associated to the deterministic component by means of a decimation method and of the uncertainty associated to the random component by statistical analysis. The procedure concludes with the calculation of the combined uncertainty due to these effects. Basic guidelines for the optimal selection of procedure parameters related to filtering and decimation are discussed. Demonstration and verification of the proposed procedure on experimental time-sampled data for the superior calorific value and on artificially generated data confirms that the proposed procedure enables reliable and robust evaluation of the uncertainty.

• Language: English
• Keywords: gas energy measurement, time-sampled data, deterministic variations, random variations, time-domain filtering, measurement uncertainty
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: 8 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 258, pt. D, art. 119413
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-175460
• UDC: 531.733
• ISSN on article: 0263-2241
• DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2025.119413
• COBISS.SI-ID: 255055107
• Publication date in RUL: 28.10.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation
• Shortened title: Measurement
• Publisher: Elsevier, International Measurement Confederation
• ISSN: 0263-2241
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25917696

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