COMBUSTION SCIENCE

Diagnostics

The UCICL maintains an array of various diagnostic tools for experimental studies of combustion systems, both gas and liquid fueled. The UCICL also has experience developing new tools that may been deemed valuable for quantifying and/or characterizing phenomena of interest. The table below summarizes the current instrumentation and techniques which are available.

“Conventional” Diagnostics:

Extractive Emissions (3 rack systems for criteria pollutants,
2 portable systems)

Air Toxics system (per EPA TO-5, TO-14)

Temperature, Soot, GC/MS

High Speed Video

Acoustic Sampling

LabView based data acquisition systems

Smoke Number/Smoke Point measurement systems

Thermophoretic Sampling

Laser Diagnostics:

Laser Anemometry (2 2D systems)

Digital Particle Image Velocimetry

Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering

Raman Scattering

Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence

Laser Rayleigh

Laser Diffraction

Phase Doppler Interferometry (2 systems)

Optical Patternation

Chemiluminesence Imaging/Sensing

Differential Absorption for Fuel Vapor

Infrared Absorption for Hydrocarbon Concentration

Intensity Ratioing for Fine particles

Transient Grating Spectroscopy