Recently, video based flame detection technologies have become an important approach to the early detection of potential fire disasters. The recognition accuracy of most of the existing approaches for video based flame detection is not satisfactory. In this paper, we develop a new video based flame detection algorithm that can accurately recognize flames in video sequences based on color and ge...

This paper deals with the development of flame imaging system using laser-based tomography. The aim of this project is to obtain the concentration profile of the flame to be incorporated in laser-based transmission tomography measurement system for combustion on-line monitoring. The system can be applied in real–time manner to produce a cross sectional images of flame such as that in a combusti...

A new combustion model is developed and applied to simulate combustion in dual-fuel engines in which the premixed natural gas is ignited by the combustion flame initiated by a diesel spray. The model consists of a diesel auto-ignition model and a flame propagation model. A G-equation model previously developed to simulate SI engine combustion was incorporated with an auto-ignition model to simu...

A multi-feature fusion early flame detection algorithm based on D-S evidence theory is proposed. In this algorithm, first the method based on YcbCr and RGB color spaces is used for extracting the flame region of interest. Then flame classifiers based on flame flicker frequency and flame image correlation between frames are selected as two features of D-S feature fusion, the basic probability as...

Infrared images provide useful information to inspect the status of combustion processes. The flame geometry and intensity depend on the process variables and the characteristics of the combustion chamber. This paper describes methods to analyze infrared images of industrial flames and to characterize the flame geometry. A segmentation algorithm is proposed to separate the flame region from the...

The latest techniques used to prove, describe and analyze the gas phase activity of a fire retardant used in polymeric materials are briefly reviewed. Classical techniques, such as thermogravimetric analysis or microscale combustion calorimetry, as well as complex and advanced analytical techniques, such as modified microscale combustion calorimeter (MCC), molecular beam mass spectroscopy and v...

Edge detection process is used in image processing application to obtain the information from images. Flame and fire image processing is to judge the boundary between area of fire and nonfire region. Basically it is image based flame monitoring technique which is necessary for early fire detection, fire evaluation and determination of flame and fire parameter. There are many edge detection meth...

High-fidelity multi-scale simulation tools are critically important for examining energy conversion processes in which the coupling of complex chemical kinetics, molecular transport, continuum mixing and acoustics play important roles. The objectives of this thesis are: (i) to develop a state-of-the-art numerical approach to capture the wide spectra of spatio-temporal scales associated with rea...

Abstract—This study is aiming at establishing the relationship between the optical signal of flame and an equivalent ratio of flame. In this experiment, flame optical signal in a furnace is measured using photodiode. The combustion system is composed of metal fiber burner and vertical furnace, and flame chemiluminescence is measured at various experimental conditions. In this study, the flame c...

Since a large number of physical parameters influence the flame dynamics in a full scale gas turbine combustor, it is virtually impossible to develop physically correlated reduced order models for flame dynamics by directly studying these complex reacting flows. Even the Rijke tube combustor system, though comprising of a simple geometry and a flat flame, shows a strong nonlinear coupling betwe...