Abstract:The CO2 infrared thermal imaging technology was used to capture the premixed nheptane droplet stream jet flames in a controllable active thermo-atmosphere. The flame liftoff heights were measured by developing an in-house picture processing code. The effects of co-flow temperature, premixed equivalence ratio and jet velocity were studied. The experimental results showed that the lift-off height of jet flame was mainly controlled by chemical ignition delay, the flame height decreased with the increase of co-flow temperature. Besides, when the co-flow temperature was high enough, the liftoff height almost did not further decrease. The increasing equivalence ratio shortened the physical ignition delay, making the lift-off height decrease. When the equivalence ratio was fixed, there existed a critical co-flow temperature. Increasing the jet velocity could improve the lift-off height when the co-flow temperatures were lower than the critical value. But the lift-off hight would derease when the co-flow temperature is higher than the critical values.