Time-Resolved Temperature Profiling of Flames With Highly Preheated/Low Oxygen Concentration Air in an Industrial Size Furnace

2004 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Shimada ◽  
T. Akiyama ◽  
S. Fukushima ◽  
K. Mitsui ◽  
M. Jinno ◽  
...  

A high-speed video camera was combined with a newly developed optical system to measure time resolved two-dimensional (2D) temperature distribution in flames. This diagnostics has been applied to measure the temperature distribution in an industrial size regenerative test furnace facility using highly preheated combustion air and heavy fuel oil. The 2D distributions of continuum emission from soot particles in these flames have been simultaneously measured at two discrete wave bands at 125 frames/sec. This allowed us to determine the temperature from each image on the basis of two-color 2D thermometry, in which the ratio of the 2D emission intensity distribution at various spatial position in the flame was converted into the respective 2D temperature distribution with much higher spatial resolution as compared to that obtainable with thermocouples. This diagnostic method was applied to both premixed and diffusion flames with highly preheated low oxygen concentration combustion air using heavy fuel oil. The results show that higher temperature regions exist continuously in the premixed flame as compared to the diffusion flame. This provided clear indication of higher NO emission from the premixed flame as compared to diffusion flames during the combustion of heavy fuel oil under high-temperature air combustion conditions. This observation is contrary to that obtained with normal temperature combustion air wherein diffusion flames result in higher NOx emission levels.

2002 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 326-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kitagawa ◽  
N. Konishi ◽  
N. Arai ◽  
A. K. Gupta

Spontaneous emission spectroscopy has been applied to measure the time-resolved temperature profiles of gaseous fuel flames using high temperature and low oxygen concentration combustion air. Two emission peaks of C2 radical species have been observed at visible wavelengths from propane-air flames. The ratio of these two peaks depends on the flame temperature. The relationship between the ratios of these peaks was correlated with the thermocouple output using a premixed flat flame burner and a multichannel CCD spectrometer. Using this relationship, the flame temperature was determined from the ratio of the C2 peaks. Time-resolved emission intensity profiles of the two C2 bands (two-wavelength image) were observed simultaneously with a high sensitivity video camera fitted with an optical system. The time-resolved temperature profiles were constructed from these intensity profiles by utilizing the previously determined relationship at each pixel. To evaluate fluctuations of flame temperatures, the standard deviation profiles for the temperature profiles have been constructed. This spectroscopic diagnostic technique has been used to measure the profiles of mean flame temperature and temperature fluctuation produced from a concentric diffusion flame using propane as the fuel and high temperature and low oxygen concentration combustion air. In this study, the effect of air-preheat and low oxygen concentration in the combustion air on the subsequent flame temperature and temperature fluctuations has been determined by analyzing the spectra of spontaneous emission from the C2 radicals.


2021 ◽  
Vol 560 ◽  
pp. 179-185
Author(s):  
Adiza Abass ◽  
Tokuju Okano ◽  
Kotchakorn Boonyaleka ◽  
Ryo Kinoshita-Daitoku ◽  
Shoji Yamaoka ◽  
...  

1982 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Hendry ◽  
J. V. Moore ◽  
B. W. Hodgson ◽  
J. P. Keene

2009 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
LP. Sartori ◽  
MG. Nogueira ◽  
R. Henry ◽  
EM. Moretto

During three consecutive years, monthly samples of zooplankton were taken in the lacustrine (dam) zone of Jurumirim (São Paulo, Brazil). The seasonal effect on basic limnological features (thermal regime, oxygen distribution, phytoplankton biomass, etc.) was also examined. The influence of the seasonality on the fluctuation of the zooplankton composition and abundance was not clearly detected (low degree of recurrent patterns). Rotifers (32 taxa) were the most abundant organisms during almost the entire study period with some seasonal alternations in the maximum abundance peaks of the main taxa (Conochilus unicornis, Keratella americana, K. cochlearis and Hexarthra spp.), except for Polyarthra (mainly P. vulgaris). Only occasionally copepods were numerically dominant. Higher copepod abundance was positively associated to periods of increase in the water retention time. Among the Copepoda (10 taxa) the calanoids (mainly Notodiaptomus iheringi) were more abundant, especially in warmer periods. Conversely, cyclopoids had higher abundance in autumn and winter. The species Thermocyclops minutus and T. decipiens co-occurred, but the first attained higher abundance. Some evidence of co-existence strategies between both species are considered. Cladocera (17 taxa) was never numerically dominant and the main taxa (Bosmina spp., Ceriodaphnia spp. and Diaphanosoma spp.) occurred almost the whole study period and did not present a seasonal pattern of fluctuation. Diaphanosoma (mainly D. birgei) attained the highest abundance among cladocerans. Most organisms were always found at the surface, but they also occupy the whole water column, even in periods of stratified conditions and low oxygen concentration in the bottom layers. Among the main zooplanktonic taxa, only Hexarthra avoids deep layers. An exceptionally high concentration of Copepoda nauplii on the surface was influenced by low transparency, high concentration of phytoplankton at this layer and low oxygen concentration at the bottom. In periods of higher retention timevariability there was a more heterogeneous distribution of the zooplankton in the water column. The increase in the retention time seems also to favor the copepod development. Finally, some inter-decade changes are considered on the basis of zooplankton assemblage structure observations.


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