Monitoring of oscillatory characteristics of pulverized coal flames through image processing and spectral analysis

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 226-231

  Lu, Gang ^a   Yan, Yong ^a   Colechin, Mike ^b   Hill, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b EON Engineering Ratcliffe on Soar   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flame monitoring; Image processing; Pulverized coal; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

COAL COMBUSTION; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

COMBUSTION TEST FACILITY; DIRECT GREY-LEVEL THRESHOLDING; FLAME MONITORING SYSTEM; FLAME OSCILLATORY FREQUENCY; PULVERIZED COAL FLAMES; WAVELET SHRINKAGE ALGORITHMS;

FLAME RESEARCH;

EID: 32144463477     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.861254     Document Type: Article

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