• DocumentCode
    3579117
  • Title

    LabVIEW based online phase fraction determination using dielectric sensing

  • Author

    Adhavan, J. ; Arunaganesan, S. ; Ramachandran, G. ; Venkatesan, M.

  • Author_Institution
    School of Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA University, Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Two phase flow regime identification has ubiquitous applications in industries making it an important field of study. Vast number of methodologies has been designed for flow regime identification and one such method is dielectric measurement where the flow regime is identified using the changes in effective permittivity of the system due to varying void fraction. Two parallel copper plates placed on either sides of the diameter of the tube work as the dielectric sensor. The dielectric sensor is connected to the designed capacitance meter and the results are processed in graphical programming software LABVIEW. The slug, bubbly, stratified and annular flows are determined in a 3.4 mm diameter tube using this technique.
  • Keywords
    Capacitance; Capacitance measurement; Electrodes; Electron tubes; Fluid flow measurement; Fluids; Phase measurement; Dielectric Sensor; LabVIEW; Phase Fraction; Two phase flows; capacitance meter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-3974-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCIC.2014.7238372
  • Filename
    7238372