Abstract
Conference Title: 2014 International Conference on Green Computing Communication and Electrical Engineering (ICGCCEE) Conference Start Date: 2014, March 6 Conference End Date: 2014, March 8 Conference Location: Coimbatore, India This paper proposes to monitor and control the coal combustion of thermal power plant boiler. The monitoring process for the combustion was determined using flame characteristics. Image processing techniques was used to analyze flame characteristics. Median filter reduces the noise in the flame image. Using obtained image, the ratio of air is varied using model predictive control and robotic arm can control the ratio then finally combustion properly take place.