Combustion state diagnostic method
First Claim
1. In an automatic method of diagnosing a combustion state in a furnace of a boiler or the like;
- a combustion state diagnostic method comprising the steps of;
classifying shapes of flames into a plurality of patterns in advance, and storing them in advance as reference flames in correspondence with combustion states at the respective flame patterns,retrieving which of the stored flame shapes a detected flame shape of the furnace is similar to, anddiagnosing the combustion state of the furnace as the combustion state stored in correspondence with the flame shape which has been found the most similar to the detected flame shape by the retrieval.
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Abstract
A method of diagnosing a combustion state in a furnace of a boiler wherein the shape of the root part of a flame (namely, the part closer to the fuel jet port of a burner) is picked up by an image sensor or the like, and the combustion state is diagnosed from the shape. Concretely, the relationships between the shapes of the root parts of flames and the combustion states of the furnace, e.g., the amount of CO or the amount of NOx are experimentally or empirically ensured and are stored in advance, one of the patterns of the stored flame shapes is selected on the basis of the shape of the root part of the flame actually observed, and the combustion state of the furnace is judged the combustion state of the selected flame shape.
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7 Claims
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1. In an automatic method of diagnosing a combustion state in a furnace of a boiler or the like;
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a combustion state diagnostic method comprising the steps of; classifying shapes of flames into a plurality of patterns in advance, and storing them in advance as reference flames in correspondence with combustion states at the respective flame patterns, retrieving which of the stored flame shapes a detected flame shape of the furnace is similar to, and diagnosing the combustion state of the furnace as the combustion state stored in correspondence with the flame shape which has been found the most similar to the detected flame shape by the retrieval. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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