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AICHE JOURNAL
Volume 69, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/aic.18055
Keywords
circulating fluidized bed; deep learning; electrical capacitance tomography; particle concentration distribution; tomographic imaging
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This article develops a deep learning-based tomographic imaging technique using electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) to characterize particle concentration distribution in a circulating fluidized bed (CFB). Experimental results demonstrate that the deep tomographic imaging technique of ECT can successfully measure particle distribution in both 60 mm and 100 mm pipes, showing good prediction and generality of the designed convolutional neural network (CNN) model. The experimental findings reveal a flow regime transformation from annular flow to core-annular flow and pneumatic conveying, which are highly affected by the fluidized gas flow rate and the initial bed height.
The gas and solids in a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) are heterogeneously dispersed and a multiscale flow regime may form both in time and space. Accurate measurement of the fluidizing process is significant for investigating the multiscale gas-solid flow characteristics and the design, optimization, and control of CFBs in various applications. This article develops a deep learning-based tomographic imaging of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) to characterize the particle concentration distribution in a CFB. The deep tomographic imaging approach is realized through training a well-designed convolutional neural network (CNN) with the numerically built dataset. Simulation results demonstrate that the average values of the relative image errors reconstructed by CNN in the test set are 0.1110 and 0.1114 for the 60 and 100 mm pipes, respectively, which are better than the average values of 0.1819 and 0.2519 by the Landweber algorithm. With the verification of the trained model based on the prepared data can image the unseen typical flow patterns better than Landweber, it is further used to investigate the particle flow characteristics of a lab-scale CFB. Experimental results reveal that the developed deep tomographic imaging of ECT can successfully measure the fluidized particle distribution in both the 60 and 100 mm pipes, showing good prediction and generality of the designed CNN model. A flow regime transformation from annular flow to core-annular flow and pneumatic conveying is observed under the tested conditions. Besides, the flow regime would be highly affected by the fluidized gas flow rate and the initial bed height.
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