Title :
Design and implementation of an electrical resistance tomography (E.R.T.) system for condition assessment of industrial equipment
Author :
Bhattacharyya, P. ; Mitra, Abhijit ; Purkait, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata, India
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel approach to solve the problem of condition assessment of fluids used in electrical systems. A low-cost system to measure the void fraction of a fluid using electrical resistance tomography (E.R.T) has been designed and implemented in this paper. Electrical resistance tomography is mainly used for determining the conductivity distribution within conducting fluids. Using this system, condition monitoring of fluids can also be done in real time. A new technique of simulating the experimental setup has been demonstrated using ANSYS 13.0 ICEM CFD and ANSYS 13.0 FLUENT. The experimental results are shown to promisingly approximate the simulation results.
Keywords :
computational fluid dynamics; condition monitoring; electric resistance measurement; flow measurement; tomography; ANSYS 13.0 FLUENT; ANSYS 13.0 ICEM CFD; condition assessment; conducting fluids; conductivity distribution; electrical resistance tomography system; industrial equipment; void fraction; Electrodes; Finite element analysis; Fluids; Impedance; Resistance; Tomography; Voltage measurement; ANSYS; Electrical resistance tomography; Howland current source; condition assessment; finite element analysis; void fraction;
Conference_Titel :
Condition Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems (CATCON), 2013 IEEE 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kolkata
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0081-7
DOI :
10.1109/CATCON.2013.6737528
