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Fluorescence and absorption characteristics of p-xylene: applicability for temperature measurements

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This paper explores the characteristics of absorption and fluorescence spectra of p-xylene within the temperature range that is frequently encountered during the mixture formation in internal combustion engines. At 266 nm wavelength, the p-xylene absorption cross section shows a mean value of (3.4 ± 0.2) × 10−19 cm2/molecule within the temperature range from 423 to 623 K in N2. As expected, fluorescence peak intensity decreases by a factor of 3 when the temperature increases by 100 K, due to a increasing non-radiative decay rate of excited state at increasing temperatures. In addition, the suitability of p-xylene for temperature measurements in the gas phase via the single-wavelength excitation (at 266 nm) two-color detection laser-induced fluorescence imaging is explored. Combinations of spectral detection bands were compared and the combination of 320/289 nm provides the best temperature performance with a relative error of 2.6% within the investigated temperature range. It is also shown that the temperature field measurement has not been strongly affected by the laser attenuation.

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The present study has been supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2016M591672), Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 14ZZ022) and Science and Technology Project of Guangdong Province (No. 2016A040403095). Key Laboratory of Hypersonic Ramjet Technology of China (No. STS/MY-KFKT-2014001). The authors feel grateful to Wenyuan Qi, Qingzhe Zhou and engineer of Yuanming Ma for their contributions to the establishment of the experimental setup.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Qianlong Wang & Yuyin Zhang

  2. Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, Guangdong, China

    Liqiao Jiang & Daiqing Zhao

  3. UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7190, Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Paris, France

    Philippe Guibert

  4. Science and Technology on Scramjet Laboratory, Hypervelocity Aerodynamics Institute of CARDC, Mianyang, 621000, Sichuan, China

    Shunhua Yang

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Wang, Q., Zhang, Y., Jiang, L. et al. Fluorescence and absorption characteristics of p-xylene: applicability for temperature measurements. Appl. Phys. B 123, 242 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6817-5

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