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Temperature-Velocity Correlation Measurements for Turbulent Diffusion Flames from Vibrational Raman-Scattering Data... 

The main contribution to the anti-Stokes generation comes from a small volume around the focus of the two incident beams. Therefore very small sample quantities (microliters for liquid samples or millibar pressures for gaseous samples) are required. Furthermore, a high spatial resolution is possible, which allows one to probe the spatial distribution of molecules in definite rotational-vibrational levels. The measurements of local temperature variations in flames from the intensity of anti-Stokes lines in CARS is an example where this advantage is utilized. 

The proteetive system is independent of the eontrol system and provides proteetion from over-speed, over-temperature, vibration, loss of flame, and loss of lubrieation. The over-speed proteetion system generally has a trans-dueer mounted on the aeeessory gear or shaft, and trips the gas turbine at approximately 10% of maximum design speed. The over-temperature system has thermoeouples similar to the normal temperature eontrols with a similar redundant system. The flame deteetion system eonsists of at least two ultraviolet flame deteetors to sense a flame in the eombustion eans. 

Other utility systems have quite wide spacing recommendations too Boilers have flame and hot surfaces, which can act as ignition sources. Large distances are often recommended for compressors to separate possible leaks from ignition sources. Compressors may cause a considerable amount of vibration, which may cause leaks in piping. They also need clear space around them to be maintained and operated properly. 

Poly( j-phenylene isophthalamide) (structure 4.59), sold under the trade name Nomex, exhibits good thermal stability decomposing above 370°C. It is used in flame-resistant clothing. It is also used in the form of thin pads to protect sintered silica-fiber mats from stress and vibrations during the flight of the space shuttle ... 

High speed emission spectroscopy has been used to study free radicals and positive, negative, and multiple ions produced in explosions and flames. Many excited states would exist for many different species from coal subjected to high energy. Complex spectra would result. The combination of electronic-vibration-rotation transitions observable in emission spectroscopy... 

The different parts of a flame detector must be rigid. If bumping the gas chromatograph moves the collector momentarily by 0.1 mm, the capacitance between the collector and the rest of the detector may decrease (or increase) by perhaps 0.1 pF. If the collector is polarized at 300 V, this change in capacitance injects a spike of 30 pC into the electrometer. At the typical flame sensitivity, this spike is equivalent to a very narrow peak of half a pg, a readily detectable amount. The coaxial cable from the detector to the electrometer is also a capacitor sensitive to vibration. It also suffers from triboelectricity (charge... 

This radiative recombination is observed in flames181,213, electric arcs214, shock tubes194,215,216, and atomic flames192,217-219. In flames and arcs, the emission consists of diffuse bands on a continuum, whereas in atomic flames (the reaction of O with CO at low pressures and room temperature) there is no continuum and clear vibrational structure extends from below 3000 A out to at least 6000 A. The process has not been studied as thoroughly as O+NO, but enjoys the same complexities and uncertainties. 

Millikan20 has described an ingenious fluorescence technique for measuring relaxation rates of the CO(t> = 1) molecule. In a flow tube at 5-20cm.sec-1, CO is excited to (o = 1) at the inlet with infrared emission from the CO fundamental (2143 cm-1), a suitably intense source being a CH4(rich)/02 flame. There are two competing processes by which the vibrational excitation can decay... 

Schematic energy level diagrams for the most widely used probe methods are shown in Fig. 1. In each case, light of a characteristic frequency is scattered, emitted, and/or absorbed by the molecule, so that a measurement of that frequency serves to identify the molecule probed. The intensity of scattered or emitted radiation can be related to the concentration of the molecule responsible. From measurements on different internal quantum states (vibrational and/or rotational) of the system, a population distribution can be obtained. If that degree of freedom is in thermal equilibrium within the flame, a temperature can be deduced if not, the population distribution itself is then of direct interest.

By decreasing the detection bandwidth as much as possible, consistent with maintaining a good signal to noise ratio, a limiting condition can be approximated for which the quenching summation varies in a simple manner from flame to flame. In the limit in which only one transition is monitored from the v J state populated by the laser, almost every vibrational or rotational relaxation from that state is an effective quenching collision. Under these conditions the quench summation term approximates to a gas kinetic quench rate. 

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