Advanced Monitoring Using Imaging For Combustion In Power Station Boilers : Project Profile

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This document is a profile for the project titled 'Advanced Monitoring Using Imaging For Combustion In Power Station Boilers'.

Recent improvements in self illuminating video (SIV) imaging equipment and digital image processing together with the falling costs of the necessary hardware, mean that there is the potential to develop commercially viable systems to generate quantifiable performance parameters from boiler video cameras. This information can then be used for combustion improvements on utility boilers. This programme aims to develop a prototype SIV system and test it in real environments in order to achieve the following objectives:

To use SIV and image analysis techniques to identify adverse combustion conditions.

To provide a number of quantifiable parameters from video images which can be used to evaluate flame stability and combustion.

To develop software to run on a stand-alone PC system to provide the above information in real-time and transfer key parameters to existing data logging systems.

To develop systems to transmit and integrate video data from a number of cameras under actual boiler conditions.

To determine optimum video probe designs and locations for quantitative SIV.

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DTI