Automatization of a Flame Propagation Experimental Setup using LabVIEW

Lora de la Calle, Alexis Jesús

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Automatization of a Flame Propagation Experimental Setup using LabVIEW

dc.contributor.advisor	Veiga López, Fernando
dc.contributor.author	Lora de la Calle, Alexis Jesús
dc.contributor.departamento	UC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica y de Fluidos	es
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-20T11:57:10Z
dc.date.available	2020-02-20T11:57:10Z
dc.date.issued	2019-06
dc.date.submitted	2019-07-05
dc.description.abstract	The present dissertation aims at automating the propagation of a premixed flame in a quasi-bidimensional geometry using as a combustion chamber a Hele-Shaw cell. This project is carried out by the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Department of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The work done explained in this document includes the synchronization of a high-speed camera recording the flame front as it advances through the cell (at a rate of 1000 frames per second), with a DAQ charge amplifier which collects pressure and acceleration signals provided by sensors distributed along the cell domain, with the objective of relating each pair of data with a real image so as to characterize the flame. Also, the control of all the gases participating in the experiment (methane is used as fuel, and air as oxidant), as well as the mechanisms used to ignite the mixture are incorporated. Finally, the process by which the pneumatic actuators open and close both ends of the combustion chamber has been achieved to be automatic. All this automatization is accomplished using the software LabVIEW. Lastly, a verification of the program is presented where three different cases (with different equivalent ratios) are analyzed and compared with previous studies, providing as a result the right functioning of the code and thus, its validation. For this task, a MatLab code is needed to undertake the image processing procedure in order to convert the pictures taken by the camera into useful data employed for the calculation of the flame front velocity.	es
dc.description.degree	Ingeniería Aeroespacial	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/29730
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Ingeniería Industrial	es
dc.subject.other	Automation	es
dc.subject.other	Hele-Shaw cell	es
dc.subject.other	Premixed flame	es
dc.subject.other	LabVIEW	es
dc.subject.other	Instabilities	es
dc.title	Automatization of a Flame Propagation Experimental Setup using LabVIEW	es
dc.type	bachelor thesis	*
dspace.entity.type	Publication