Influence of Line Pair Selection on Flame Tomography Using Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy

Abstract

We report the influence of absorption line selection on the tomographic results for high-temperature flames by numerical and experimental methods. Different combinations of infrared H₂O absorption transitions are utilized with the Tikhonov-regularized Abel inversion to reconstruct the radial distribution of temperature and H₂O concentration in a flat flame. It is shown that besides using the mathematical algorithm such as regularization, selecting a line pair with a large ΔE″ (>1390 cm⁻¹) also reduces the reconstruction uncertainty at 300–2000 K. In this study, a proper selection of absorption line pairs reduces the reconstruction uncertainty by 25% at the same level of noise. The line pair of H₂O transitions at 4029.524 cm⁻¹ and 4030.729 cm⁻¹ is recommended for the tomography of high-temperature flames at 1000–3000 K, whereas the line pair of 7185.597 cm⁻¹ and 7444.352 cm⁻¹ can be used at 300–1000 K.

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Tomography tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy TDLAS line selection high-temperature flame

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