{"id":1732,"date":"2014-10-14T05:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T05:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.temperaturemonitoringuae.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2023-05-25T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T08:48:06","slug":"how-to-calculate-mean-kinetic-temperature-mkt-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.temperaturemonitoringuae.com\/how-to-calculate-mean-kinetic-temperature-mkt-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to calculate Mean Kinetic Temperature (MKT) in Excel Sheet (Free Download)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you are dealing with medicines or other temperature-sensitive products you can calculate Mean Kinetic Temperature using this MKT calculation sheet. Read on.<\/p>\n

What is Mean Kinetic Temperature in basic language?\"mean-kinetic-temperature-report\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

If you have a set of temperature readings across a certain period of time, the Mean Kinetic Temperature across this period means the effective average thermal value for this period. This temperature value is what the stored goods effectively feel during the mentioned time. This is not the arithmetical average of the readings.<\/p>\n

Mean Kinetic Temperature is calculated for understanding the effects of variations in temperature for temperature-sensitive goods during storage and transportation.<\/p>\n

A sample from our data logger<\/a> in the image on the\u00a0right side indicates the MKT value automatically generated in its report. Nowadays we do not need to calculate MKT manually. You can simply place a temperature data logger<\/a> and the reports will automatically indicate the MKT value.<\/pre>\n
Have you wondered about the difference between the Mathematical Average value and the Mean Kinetic Value?<\/p>\n
The calculation is different from the Average value which is the sum total of the values divided by the count of the values. The mean Kinetic value is slightly higher than the average value.<\/p>\n
This is particularly important for the storage and transportation of medicine, vaccines, etc.
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Example of application of Mean Kinetic Temperature<\/h3>\n
In layman’s language this is explained below:<\/p>\n
As an example, \"download-free-mkt-calculation-excel-sheet\"<\/a>with Free Excel software for automatic calculation of MKT of multiple data loggers, we will consider that medicine that has to be maintained between 2-8 \u00b0C is transported for 10 hours. A temperature\u00a0data logger<\/a> is kept inside the box for recording the temperature continuously. At the end of the transportation, the recorded temperature data is downloaded and verified. At this point suppose that the temperature has gone above 8 \u00b0C a couple of times and below 2\u00b0C a couple of times. As the medicine is always to be kept between 2 and 8\u00b0C, you are not sure whether the medicine is acceptable or not since the temperature has gone above 8\u00b0C a few times or below 2\u00b0C a few times for different durations. In this case, you can check the MKT value of the 10 hours period and if the MKT value is within 2-8\u00b0C, the medicine is still considered to have retained all its properties.\"screen-mkt-calculation-in-excel\"<\/a><\/p>\n
Hence MKT for a\u00a0substance\u00a0can be defined as the calculated value derived from the complete recording over a specified period of time.\u00a0If this value is within the permitted values, the substance is still considered to be safe.<\/p>\n
How to Calculate Mean Kinetic Temperature Manually in Excel Sheet?<\/h2>\n
Would you be interested in the simplest way of using an Excel sheet? All of you are familiar with Excel and hopefully, this will be the simplest calculation method.<\/p>\n
You may download the free excel sheet which defines a function namely “MKT”. This function can be used similarly to any other function such as SUM, AVERAGE, etc.<\/p>\n
If you do not want to calculate manually, we encourage you to\u00a0 download the free Excel sheet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n