Analysis of industrial flame characteristics and constancy study using image processing technique

The study of characterizing and featuring different kinds of flames has become more important than ever in order to increase combustion efficiency and decrease particulate emissions, especially since the study of industrial flames requires more attention. In the present work, different kinds of comb...

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Main Authors: Bibhuti Bhusan Samantaray, Chinmay Kumar Mohanta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Pahang Publishing 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences
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Online Access:http://jmes.ump.edu.my/images/Volume_9/8_Samantaray%20and%20Mohanta.pdf
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Summary:The study of characterizing and featuring different kinds of flames has become more important than ever in order to increase combustion efficiency and decrease particulate emissions, especially since the study of industrial flames requires more attention. In the present work, different kinds of combustion flames have been characterized by means of digital image processing (DIP) in a 500 kW PF pilot swirl burner. A natural gas flame and a set of pulverized fuel flames of coal and biomass have been comparatively analyzed under co-firing conditions. Through DIP, statistical and spectral features of the flame have been extracted and graphically represented as two-dimensional distributions covering the root flame area. Their study and comparison leads to different conclusions about the flame behavior and the effect of co-firing coal and biomass in pulverized fuel flames. Higher oscillation levels in co-firing flames versus coal flames and variations in radiation regimen were noticed when different biomasses are blended with coal and brought under attention.
ISSN:2289-4659
2231-8380