Abstract
Knowledge of the temperature profile of the gases produced by the combustion of fossil fuels with air is a desirable step in the thermal protection systems. These gases are generally associated with high temperatures and steep temperature gradients. The measurement of temperature profiles of combustion products are often hard to make using thermocouples and other immersed pyrometers because such probes may have to be immersed in inaccessible and possibly destructive media. Determination of gas temperature profiles from multi-frequency radiative measurements seems an attractive alternative. This could be accomplished by radiative heat transfer probing and the application of the principle of inversion, where inversion is the process of inferring the internal parameters of a system of outside measurements, without the interruption of the combustion system itself.
This paper discusses the development of models to retrieve the temperature distribution in a flame system by remote spectral sensing. Mixed Gray-Gas models were developed to calculate water vapor and carbon dioxide standard emissivities. The evaluation of combustion system spectral radiant flux was simulated and a model was developed and successfully tested for the application of temperature inversion.