Implementation of tridirectional large lateral shearing displacement interferometry in temperature measurement of a diffused ethylene flame.

A tridirectional large lateral shearing displacement interferometric system has been proposed and used to reconstruct the temperature field of a quasi-axisymmetric diffused ethylene flame in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) hypotheses. In comparison with the thermocouple results, the 2D reconstructed results affords a quantitative analysis with an average discrepancy between 20 and 40 K in the full field, except in the closer part inside the peak temperature location where a high soot volume fraction exists. The 3D reconstructed results affords qualitative analysis and exhibits some asymmetrical characters, but an obvious error occurs at 1 cm height where it is not suitable to use the universal correction coefficient.

Simulation on an optimal combustion control strategy for 3-D temperature distributions in tangentially pc-fired utility boiler furnaces.

The control of 3-D temperature distribution in a utility boiler furnace is essential for the safe, economic and clean operation of pc-fired furnace with multi-burner system. The development of the visualization of 3-D temperature distributions in pc-fired furnaces makes it possible for a new combustion control strategy directly with the furnace temperature as its goal to improve the control quality for the combustion processes. Studied in this paper is such a new strategy that the whole furnace is divided into several parts in the vertical direction, and the average temperature and its bias from the center in every cross section can be extracted from the visualization results of the 3-D temperature distributions.