Visualizing combustion using electrical impedance tomography

✍ Scribed by Roger C. Waterfall; Ruhua He; Christopher M. Beck

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 807 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2509(97)00039-0

✦ Synopsis

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techniques developed for electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) have been adapted to characterize combustion phenomena in a scaled model of an internal combustion engine. The method is able to locate flame position, measure flame size and monitor the effect of varied air/fuel ratio. Flame failure can be identified. The technique can measure flame front arrival time and reliably depict the development of the combustion process in a research model of a single cylinder internal combustion (IC) engine. Low-resolution images at over 300 frames per second have been captured.