This thesis is mainly focused on the measurements of the temperature and concentration fields of a high pure propane(C3H8) gas. The temperature and concentration fields were measured by utilizing the laser absorption characteristics.
In order to measu...
This thesis is mainly focused on the measurements of the temperature and concentration fields of a high pure propane(C3H8) gas. The temperature and concentration fields were measured by utilizing the laser absorption characteristics.
In order to measure the temperature and concentration fields, an optical tomograph measurement system has been constructed, in which laser technology and tomography technology were adopted.
The optical signals were obtained from the laser signals that had been passed through the combustion field of the propane gas, and these were used for reconstructing the temperature and concentration field.
TDLAS (tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy) principle has been adopted, in which the intensity of the laser passed through the combustion field is absorbed according to the concentration of the gas molecule. The concentration field has been measured by adopting the tomography technology.
The present measurement system, optical tomography system, constructed in this thesis is capable of measuring the temperature and concentration fields up to 1500 K.
To attain this goal, two key approaches had been adopted. Firstly, an auto profiling method has been constructed, which is capable of reconstructing very weak signals at the wavelength of 1395.2-1395.8 nm of laser. Secondly, the SMART(Simultaneous Multiple Algebraic Reconstruction Technique) algorithm has been adopted.
The temperature field measured by the constructed optical tomography was compared with those measured by thermocouples (B&R type), through which it was confirmed that the measurement discrepancy between them was within 7 %.