A tomographic flow imaging system based on capacitance measuring techniques

Author

Huang, S.M. ; Dyakowski, T. ; Xie, C.G. ; Plaskowski, A.B. ; Xu, L.A. ; Beck, M.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Instrum. & Anal. Sci., Manchester Univ., UK

fYear

1988

Firstpage

570

Abstract

A computerized tomographic method is described for imaging the component distribution in two-component flow processes. It uses eight capacitance electrodes arranged around the flow pipeline to scan the flow, and a linear backprojection algorithm is developed to reconstruct the cross-sectional image of the flow from 28 measured capacitance values. This method has the advantage of being nonintrusive to the flow, inexpensive, and simple to implement, and hence is promising for industrial applications. A prototype system based on this method has been developed and images of static physical models have been obtained

Keywords

capacitance measurement; civil engineering computing; computerised tomography; flow measurement; capacitance measuring techniques; civil engineering computing; computerized tomographic method; flow imaging system; flow measurement; flow pipeline; linear backprojection algorithm; nonintrusive; two-component flow processes; Area measurement; Capacitance measurement; Capacitive sensors; Dielectric measurements; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electrodes; Fluid flow measurement; Image reconstruction; Permittivity measurement; Transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 1988., 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0878-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.1988.28294

Filename

28294