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Soot volume fraction measurements in aero-engine exhausts using extinction-calibrated backward laser-induced incandescence

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Control and reduction of soot particle emissions from aeronautic turbines requires a monitoring system suitable for quantification of these emissions. Currently, such emissions are estimated using the technique of smoke number. This is an extractive method, which is not sensitive enough for the low emission levels of modern gas turbines. Within a recent European project, AEROTEST, part of the project aimed at investigating an alternative soot monitoring technique, laser-induced incandescence (LII) as an in-situ optical diagnostic for quantification of soot emissions. For aero-engine applications, especially those involving large-scale turbines, it is necessary to perform the measurements at long distance from the turbine. The LII technique is favourable in this respect as it provides for non-intrusive measurements and, by detecting the isotropic LII signal along the same axis as the incoming laser beam (so called backward LII), both the laser and the detector can be built inside one system located several meters from the turbine. The concept was initiated in the previous European projects, AEROJET I and II. This paper describes the modified version of the system and the procedure developed to achieve reliable and quantitative soot volume fraction measurements in the exhausts of aero-engines. Application of the backward LII technique is demonstrated in the exhaust of a military turbojet engine for different engine speeds.

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  1. Physico-Chimie des Processus de Combustion et de l’Atmosphère (PC2A), UMR CNRS 8522, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Fédération de Recherche “Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications”, (CERLA), 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France

    J. Delhay, P. Desgroux & E. Therssen

  2. Division of Combustion Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 221 00, Lund, Sweden

    H. Bladh & P.-E. Bengtsson

  3. Institute of Jet Propulsion and Turbomachinery, RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 55, 52062, Aachen, Germany

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  4. Rolls–Royce plc, Strategic Research Centre, P.O. Box 31, Derby, DE24 8BJ, UK

    J. D. Black

  5. Auxitrol S.A., 5 Allée Charles Pathé, 18941, Bourges Cedex, France

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Delhay, J., Desgroux, P., Therssen, E. et al. Soot volume fraction measurements in aero-engine exhausts using extinction-calibrated backward laser-induced incandescence. Appl. Phys. B 95, 825–838 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3534-8

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