Concurrent measurement of temperature and soot concentration of pulverized coal flames

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 990-995

  Lu, Gang ^a   Yan, Yong ^a   Riley, Gerry ^b   Chandr Bheemul, Harrish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b Windmill Hill Business Park   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital imaging; Flame; Pulverized coal; Soot concentration; Temperature

Indexed keywords

COAL COMBUSTION; FLAME RESEARCH; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL SENSORS; PULVERIZED FUEL; SOOT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

COMBUSTION TEST FACILITY; CONCURRENT MEASUREMENT; PULVERIZED COAL FLAMES; SOOT CONCENTRATION; STANDARD TEMPERATURE SOURCE; TWO-COLOR PRINCIPLE;

COAL;

EID: 0036825660     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.807804     Document Type: Article

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