Optimisation of sensor locations for measurement of flue gas flow in industrial ducts and stacks using neural networks

Author

Kang, H. ; Yang, Q. ; Butler, C. ; Xie, T. ; Benati, I.F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manuf. & Eng. Syst., Brunel Univ., Uxbridge, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

81

Abstract

This paper presents a novel application of neural network modelling in the optimisation of sensor locations for measurement of flue gas flow in industrial ducts and stacks. The neural network model has been validated with experiment based upon a case-study power plant. The results have shown that the optimised sensor location can be determined using this model. The measurement accuracy of the flue gas flow can be significantly improved in the optimised sensor location, resulting in a possible reduction in the manual operation

Keywords

ISO standards; feedforward neural nets; flow measurement; flowmeters; learning (artificial intelligence); modelling; optimisation; power plants; ISO10780 standard; Levenberg-Marquardt training; Pitot tube; case-study power plant; flue gas flow measurement; industrial ducts; industrial stacks; inverse model; measurement accuracy; neural network modelling; optimisation criterion; optimised sampling; reduced manual operation; sensor location optimisation; three-layered feedforward network; velocity profiles; Ducts; Elbow; Flue gases; Fluid flow measurement; Gas detectors; Gas industry; Neural networks; Predictive models; Sampling methods; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1999. IMTC/99. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE

Conference_Location

Venice

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5276-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1999.776724

Filename

776724