학술논문

Monitoring and characterization of combustion flames by generalized Hebbian learning
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of the 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. IJCNN'02 (Cat. No.02CH37290) Neural networks, IJCNN'02 Neural Networks, 2002. IJCNN '02. Proceedings of the 2002 International Joint Conference on. 1:82-85 vol.1 2002
Subject
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Monitoring
Combustion
Fires
Hebbian theory
Artificial neural networks
Backpropagation algorithms
Process control
Digital images
Mechanical engineering
Optimal control
Language
ISSN
1098-7576
Abstract
Combustion plays a central role in our everyday life. Monitoring and control of combustion processes are important to satisfy environmental constraints, as well as to reach an optimal performance. This work describes the characterization of combustion flames by using artificial neural networks. Generalized Hebbian learning (GHL) is applied to extract the meaningful components from flames images; so that the operating conditions of the combustion process can be inferred by analyzing just few components. The experimental results demonstrate that GHL can effectively characterize the flame in terms of just few components. It was found that the second principal component is correlated with the airflow rate. These results can be applied to real time monitoring and control of combustion process.