Enhancing burner diagnostics and control with chaos-based signal analysis techniques

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

Volumn 335, Issue , 1996, Pages 281-291

  Fuller, Timothy A ^a   Flynn, Thomas J ^a   Daw, C Stuart ^b  

^a BABCOCK AND WILCOX COMPANY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILERS; CHAOS THEORY; COMBUSTORS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FLAME RESEARCH; GAS EMISSIONS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BURNER DIAGNOSTICS; PULVERIZED COAL COMBUSTOR;

FUEL BURNERS;

EID: 0030415056     PISSN: 02725673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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