Temperature profiling of pulverized coal flames using multicolor pyrometric and digital imaging techniques

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1303-1308

  Lu, Gang ^a   Yan, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charge coupled device (CCD) camera; Combustion flame; Image processing; Multicolor pyrometry; Pulverized coal; Temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COAL COMBUSTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PYROMETRY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

COMBUSTION FLAME; MULTICOLOR PYROMETRY; PULVERIZED COAL;

FLAME RESEARCH;

EID: 33746336979     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.876393     Document Type: Article

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