Analysis of industrial flame characteristics and constancy study using image processing technique

Bibhuti Bhusan  Samantaray; Chinmay Kumar  Mohanta

doi:10.15282/jmes.9.2015.8.0156

Authors

Bibhuti Bhusan Samantaray Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rungta College of Engineering & Technology, Bhilai, India
Chinmay Kumar Mohanta Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gandhi Engineering College, Bhubaneswar-54, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15282/jmes.9.2015.8.0156

Keywords:

Flame characteristic; flame stability; image processing; swirl burner.

Abstract

The study of characterizing and featuring different kinds of flames has become more important than ever in order to increase combustion efficiency and decrease particulate emissions, especially since the study of industrial flames requires more attention. In the present work, different kinds of combustion flames have been characterized by means of digital image processing (DIP) in a 500 kW PF pilot swirl burner. A natural gas flame and a set of pulverized fuel flames of coal and biomass have been comparatively analyzed under co-firing conditions. Through DIP, statistical and spectral features of the flame have been extracted and graphically represented as two-dimensional distributions covering the root flame area. Their study and comparison leads to different conclusions about the flame behavior and the effect of co-firing coal and biomass in pulverized fuel flames. Higher oscillation levels in co-firing flames versus coal flames and variations in radiation regimen were noticed when different biomasses are blended with coal and brought under attention.

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