ASSESSMENT OF FUEL MOVEMENT IN COMBUSTION PROCESS BASED ON THE DIGITAL IMAGE

The article refers to the method of indicating the type of movement by means the digital image processing and analysis on the example of a coal dust movement sequence. Presented approach is broaden the perspective of use the vision systems in the combustion processes control, thus increasing their effectiveness. The results showed a correct reflection of the real fuel movement in the discrete surface of the vector fields using the optical flow method. Including a numerical method for vector field analysis allowed to indicate six types of movement. Research, covering a fragment of the studied phenomenon, exhaust all cases of assessing the fuel particles displacement.