Real-time optical fuel-to-air ratio sensor for gas turbine combustors

Quang-Viet Nguyen; Rajiv K. Mongia; Robert W. Dibble

doi:10.1117/12.337458

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22 January 1999 Real-time optical fuel-to-air ratio sensor for gas turbine combustors

Quang-Viet Nguyen, Rajiv K. Mongia, Robert W. Dibble

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Proceedings Volume 3535, Advanced Sensors and Monitors for Process Industries and the Environment; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.337458
Event: Photonics East (ISAM, VVDC, IEMB), 1998, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The measurement of the temporal distribution of fuel in gas turbine combustors is important in considering pollution, combustion efficiency and combustor dynamics and acoustics. Much of the previous work in measuring fuel distributions in gas turbine combustors has focused on the spatial aspect of the distribution. The temporal aspect however, has often been overlooked, even though it is just as important. In part, this is due to the challenges of applying real-time diagnostics techniques in a high pressure and high temperature environment.

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Quang-Viet Nguyen, Rajiv K. Mongia, and Robert W. Dibble "Real-time optical fuel-to-air ratio sensor for gas turbine combustors", Proc. SPIE 3535, Advanced Sensors and Monitors for Process Industries and the Environment, (22 January 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.337458

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