Infrared Vision System for Spectral Monitoring of Dynamic Phenomena at 1000 fps: application to combustion

Abstract

For the last 15 years we have been studying initiation and propagation of rapidly evolving processes in IR and developing the instruments to capture the essential features of combustion phenomena. We present an IR optical experimental setup to capture two spectral images of the same scene. We apply this technique to flame analysis in the mid-IR to determine the combustion efficiency, as measured by the CO-gas production.