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

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1801-1805

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b Powergen UK plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flame monitoring; Oscillation; Pulverised coal; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COAL; COMMINUTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OSCILLATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FLAME DETECTION; FLAME MONITORING; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); PULVERIZED COALS;

FLAME RESEARCH;

EID: 4644278517     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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