THERMAL SCIENCE
International Scientific Journal
MEASURING SURFACE TEMPERATURES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF FLY ASH SAMPLES USING A CCD CAMERA
ABSTRACT
In this work, an optical emission-based two-color method was experimentally investigated for the measurement of surface temperatures of different types of fly ash samples using a CCD camera. A heating system consisting of a Hencken flat-flame burner, a narrow piece of stainless steel wire mesh to separate the flame and the ash samples to be studied, and a thermocouple to record the temperature, was used to heat fly ash samples. A color camera equipped with a tri-band filter was used to capture radiation images. Fly ash samples collected from three kinds of coal-fired boilers were heated and imaged at different temperatures. The chemical compositions, elements, and particle size distributions were analyzed. The emissivity ratios of the wavelengths corresponding to the R and G optical channels and permitted by the tri-band filter were experimentally determined. A two-color method was subsequently used to calculate the average surface temperatures with relative errors within ±2% in the experiments, and an uncertainty analysis was conducted. Surface temperature distributions were also calculated and presented. The results demonstrate that the emission-based two-color method can be used to determine reliable average surface temperatures and surface temperature distributions when the radiation emitted from the ash samples is obviously greater than the ambient light. The results also show that the method has a lower limit of temperature measurement, which will lessen with the use of larger apertures and a higher radiation capacity of the ash samples to be studied.
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2020-06-20
PAPER REVISED: 2021-05-10
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2021-05-16
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2021-06-05
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR
2022, VOLUME
26, ISSUE
Issue 2, PAGES [1277 - 1288]
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