LIF Applications for Practical Combustors

Issue title: International Conference on Optical Technology and Image Processing in Fluid, Thermal, and Combustion Flow, Yokohama, Japan, December 1998

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Deguchi, Y. | Nakagawa, H. | Ichinose, T. | Inada, M.

Affiliations: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Nagasaki R Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, 5-717-1, Fukahori-machi, Nagasaki 851-0392, Japan. | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Nagasaki R & D Center, Internal Combustion Engine & Hydraulic Equipment Laboratory, 5-717-1, Fukahori-machi, Nagasaki 851-0392, Japan | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Nagasaki R & D Center, Power Systems Laboratory, 5-717-1, Fukahori-machi, Nagasaki 851-0392, Japan. | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Takasago R & D Center, Combustion & Heat Transfer Laboratory, 1-1, Arai-cho Shinhama 2-chome, Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture 676-8686, Japan.

Abstract: This study demonstrates the applicability of LIF in several practical combustors. Temperature and species concentration were measured inside industrial model burners, gas turbine combustors, diesel engines, and large scale industrial burners. This visualization technique introduces a new tool for use with practical combustors for the analysis of NO formation characteristics, turbulent flame front structure, and differences between normal and improved combustors.

Keywords: laser, laser induced fluorescence, combustion, nitrogen oxide, reaction mechanism

Journal: Journal of Visualization, vol. 2, no. 3-4, pp. 343-351, 2000