| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3574-0 |
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| Author | Search for: Liu, Fengshan1; Search for: Thomson, Kevin1; Search for: Smallwood, Gregory1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | Ninth Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Combustion and Energy Utilization, November 2-6, 2008, Beijing, CN |
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| Subject | Laser-induced incandescence (LII); soot measurements; Rayleigh–Debye–Gans polydisperse fractal aggregate theory; laminar coflow diffusion flames; axisymmetric flames |
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| Abstract | Laser-induced incandescence has been rapidly developed into a powerful diagnostic technique for measurements of soot in many applications. The incandescence intensity generated by laser-heated soot particles at the measurement location suffers the signal trapping effect caused by absorption and scattering by soot particles present between the measurement location and the detector. The signal trapping effect was numerically investigated in soot measurements using both a 2D LII setup and the corresponding point LII setup at detection wavelengths of 400 and 780 nm in a laminar coflow ethylene/air flame. The radiative properties of aggregated soot particles were calculated using the Rayleigh–Debye–Gans polydisperse fractal aggregate theory. The radiative transfer equation in emitting, absorbing, and scattering media was solved using the discrete-ordinates method. The radiation intensity along an arbitrary direction was obtained using the infinitely small weight technique. The contribution of scattering to signal trapping was found to be negligible in atmospheric laminar diffusion flames. When uncorrected LII intensities are used to determine soot particle temperature and the soot volume fraction, the errors are smaller in 2D LII setup where soot particles are excited by a laser sheet. The simple Beer–Lambert exponential attenuation relationship holds in LII applications to axisymmetric flames as long as the effective extinction coefficient is adequately defined. |
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| Publication date | 2009 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 51614 |
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| NPARC number | 9069436 |
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| Record identifier | 249e5f96-cbf7-44b7-aaca-35b1ad490986 |
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| Record created | 2009-10-03 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-16 |
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