Temperature profiling of pulverised coal flames using multi-colour pyrometric and digital imaging techniques

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1658-1662

  Lu, Gang ^a   Yan, Yong ^a   Cornwell, Steve ^b   Riley, Gerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CCD camera; Coal flame; Image processing; Multi colour pyrometry; Temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMMINUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PYROMETRY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CCD CAMERA; COAL FLAMES; FLAME FIELDS; MULTI COLOUR PYROMETRY;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 33847091106     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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