Two pyrometric tools for measuring soot temperature response in fuel-rich flames under unsteady inlet airflow conditions are developed. High-speed pyrometry is used in producing soot temperature distributions, with its results compared with those of global soot temperature response measured using a multi-wavelength pyrometer. For the former, the pixel RGB values are used to calculate temperature and for the latter, the emission from the whole flame at 660 nm, 730 nm and 800 nm is used. The combustor, running on Jet-A, achieves unsteady inlet airflow using a siren with modulation levels (RMS) 20-50% of mean velocity. Spatiotemporal response of flame temperature measured by the high speed camera is presented by phase-averaged with average subtracted images and by FFT at the modulation frequencies of inlet velocity. Simultaneous measurement of combustor inlet air velocity and flame soot temperature using the multi-wavelength pyrometer is used in calculating the flame transfer function of flame temperature response to unsteady inlet airflow. The results of global temperature and temperature fluctuation from the 3-color pyrometer show qualitative agreement with the local temperature response measured by the high speed camera. The overall flame temperature fluctuation increases linearly with respect to the inlet velocity fluctuation. The two-dimensional map of flame temperature under unsteady combustion determined using a high-speed digital color camera shows the local temperature fluctuation during unsteady combustion occurs over relatively small region of flame and its level is greater (~10-20%) than that of overall temperature fluctuation (~1%).
SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOOT TEMPERATURE FOR FLAMES USING OPTICAL PYROMETRY UNDER UNSTEADY INLET AIRFLOW CONDITIONS
2016
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