This work presents a numerical study of radiation heat transfer and its interaction with gray and spectral radiation of combustion products and soot that are formed in a turbulent combustion process. Different burner/furnace systems operating in a non-premixed combustion regime were used in order to evaluate, through computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the influence of several radiant properties models. Aiming to identify the key features and shortcomings that exhibit each of these models, two scenarios were considered. The first corresponds to a 1-D radiation problem where radiative properties models of a homogeneous non isothermal system are studied as (i) available CFD commercial software and (ii) those implemented in this work. Moreover, a numerical code was used in order to determine, through a narrow band approach, the spectral radiative properties of soot and combustion products. For this purpose, this code was coupled with the CFD software. Then, two laboratory-scale burners are used to assess the predictive capacity of radiative properties models: the first, burning propane and enriched air oxygen, and the second uses kerosene and oxygen as reactants. Measurements of radiant heat flux and soot volumetric fraction are used for comparison with simulation results. For both configurations, the performance of the Moss-Brookes model for predicting the soot production was also studied. The results of this study demonstrated the good performance of the majority of the radiant properties models studied. Particularly, the narrow band approach was the model that provided the best thermal radiation prediction. Moreover, the combination of the narrow band approach with the Moss-Brookes model lead to the best prediction of soot volume fraction.