Application of laser sheet technique for analysis of 3D particle velocity fields

The author has applied the laser sheet technique to acquire velocity fields and mass flows at the outlet of a nozzle system, used for introducing limestone particles into a power boiler for a desulfurization process. This brings an effect in the form of multiexposure pictures, called specklegrams, which record single particle trajectories or their agglomerates in selected areas of the flow. On the basis of this the parameters of velocity field can be estimated. The author proposes a new approach to quantitative analysis of the specklegrams. It enables one to combine correlation processing with scanline particle tracking.