Application of laser-based diagnostics to industrial scale burners

摘要

Laser-based diagnostics have proved invaluable in unraveling the mysteries of combustion processes. The successful application of laser-based diagnostics which have been developed for laboratory-scale flames to the larger, more complex geometries found in practical burners is a major challenge with potentially huge payoffs. We will describe work being carried out in the Burner Engineering Research Laboratory (BERL) where conventional physical probe techniques (thermocouples for temperature and sample extraction probes for gas composition) are being used in conjunction with laser-based diagnostics to characterize the combustion process in industrial burners.