In this paper, a method for the simultaneous measurement
of the
flame temperature and emissivity
using spectral thermometry and image thermometry was proposed; experiments
were conducted using a laboratory furnace burning solid particle fuel
derived from biomass. First, a non-gray emissivity model with a third-order
polynomial function was established, and the accuracy of the temperature
estimates obtained from the gray emissivity model, the non-gray emissivity
model, and the Hottel and Broughton emissivity model was determined.
The results showed that the proposed non-gray emissivity model had
the highest accuracy and the maximum relative error compared to the
thermocouple measurements was less than 1.5%. Second, the spectral
emissivity obtained from the spectral thermometry was used to correct
the image pyrometer data. The two-dimensional distributions of the
flame temperature and emissivity are measured after correction using
image pyrometry. It showed that the results of the spectral thermometry
and image thermometry were highly consistent with the thermocouple
measurements and the maximum relative errors were 1.5 and 3.2%, respectively.
Finally, the effects of the equivalent ratio on the temperature and
spectral emissivity were investigated. The results showed that the
maximum temperature of the volatile combustion flame was 1000–1250
K and the maximum emissivity of the flame ranged from 0.05 to 0.25
in the equivalent ratio range of 0.91–0.71. The maximum temperature
and emissivity decreased as the equivalent ratio decreased.