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Applied Energy 95 2012 38–44 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Applied Energy journal home Two-dimensional ?ame temperature and emissivity measurements of pulverized oxy-coal ?ames Teri Snow Draper a, Darrel Zeltner a, Dale R. Tree a,?, Yuan Xue b, Remi Tsiava c a 435M CTB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA b Air Liquide, 200 GBC Drive, Newark, DE 19702, USA c Air Liquide, 1, Chemin de la Porte des Loges – Les Loges-en-Josas, BP. 126-78354 Jouy-en-Jasas, Cedex, France a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A broadband, RGB, two-color pyrometry technique for measuring the ?ame temperature and total emis- Received 14 July 2011 sivity of a two-dimensional image of a coal ?ame has been developed and used on an oxy-coal ?ame. The Received in revised form 24 January 2012 method uses a single, relatively inexpensive, RGB, digital camera. The camera software permits the light Accepted 25 January 2012 intensities of the red, green, and blue light collected for each pixel to be recorded separately. The response Available online 14 March 2012 of each pixel was calibrated for each color using a blackbody radiating cavity and a monochrometer, which enabled an absolute, broadband emission measurement. The image obtained by the camera was Keywords: processed to produce a temperature and total emissivity for each pixel. Two spectral emissivity models Coal ?ame temperature were explored for use in determining the temperature and emissivity: a Gray model and Hottel and Oxy-combustion Two-color pyrometry Broughton’s soot emissivity model. Signi?cant differences of 7.1% in average temperature and 24.2% in average emissivity were found. While neither model is ideal for the entire coal ?ame, the Hottel and Broughton model was selected for future image processing because the images and analysis suggested soot was the more dominant emitter for most of the image.