Proof of Concept Test for a Real-Time Flare Combustion Efficiency Monitor

Paper from the AFRC 2013 conference titled Proof of Concept Test for a Real-Time Flare Combustion Efficiency Monitor by Yousheng Zeng

Real-time monitoring or even periodic testing of combustion efficiency (CE) of industrial flares remains a void in the current combustion and air emission measurement technology landscape. Zeng and Morris presented a new concept to monitor the flare CE in the American Flame Research Committee (AFRC) 2012 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.1 The Zeng and Morris paper described the theoretic basis of the concept and demonstrated feasibility of the approach through theoretic simulation. Since then the authors have conducted a proof of concept test to further evaluate the feasibility through experiment. This work is also supported by the U.S. EPA through its Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) 2013 Phase I grant. The experiment and the results of the test are presented in this paper.