Flame Diagnosis using Image Processing Technique

  • Kim, Song-Hwan (School of mechanical engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, Tae-Young (Department of automobile engineering, Gumi College) ;
  • Kim, Myun-Hee (School of mechanical engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Bae, Joon-Young (School of mechanical engineering, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Ryong (School of mechanical engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • Published : 2002.04.01

Abstract

Recently the interest for the environment is increasing. So the criterion for the evaluation of the burner has changed. For efficient driving problem, if the thermal efficiency is higher and the oxygen in exhaust gas is lower, then burner is evaluated better. For environmental problem. burner must satisfy NOx limit, soot limit and CO limit. Generally the experienced operator judge of the combustion status of the burner by the color of flame. we don't still have any satisfactory solution against it. the relation of the combustion status and the color of the flame hasn't still been established. This paper is the study about the relation of the combustion status and the color of the flame. This paper describes development of real time flame diagnosis technique that evaluate and diagnose combustion state such as consistency of components in exhaust gas, stability of flame in quantitative sense. In this paper, it was proposed on the flame diagnosis technique of burner using image processing algorithm, the parameter extracted from the image of the flame was used as the input variables of the flame diagnostic system. at first, linear regression algorithm and multiple regression algorithm was used to obtain linear multi-nominal expression. Using the constructed inference algorithm, the amount of NOx and CO of the combustion gas was successfully inferred. the combustion control system will be realized sooner or later.

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