Patent ID: 7901203

Claim:
A combustion chamber comprising: at least two burners and at least two controllable fuel valves, the at least two burners connectable to a fuel supply via the fuel valves; at least one optical measuring device for detecting chemiluminescent radiation, for each of the at least two burners, each burner being assigned at least one optical measuring device; a pressure sensor configured and arranged to detect a pressure in the combustion chamber; a computing and control device connected to the optical measuring devices, to the pressure sensor, and to the at least two fuel valves; wherein the computing and control device is configured and arranged to calculate, from measured values input by the optical measuring devices and the pressure sensor, a correlation between the chemiluminescent radiation of each of the at least two burners and the pressure in the combustion chamber; and wherein the computing and control device is further configured and arranged to determine the burner or a burner group with the highest correlation, and to control a fuel valve or fuel valves associated with said burner or burner group with the highest correlation, so that more fuel is fed to said burner or burner group with the highest correlation; wherein the computing and control device is configured and arranged to maintain a substantially constant fuel chamber temperature or a substantially constant fuel flow by correspondingly controlling the fuel valve or valves of burner or burners not prone to pulsation in a proportionate manner counter to the fuel valve or valves of the burner or burners prone to pulsation.