Journal
FLOW MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION
Volume 33, Issue -, Pages 1-9Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2013.04.009
Keywords
Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT); Fluidized bed; Tracing; Dense zone; Recalibration
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB201502]
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An innovative method using electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) to trace a large objects motion on an air distributor in a fluidized bed is described here. The method fills the large object to be traced with a high permittivity material, and then a recalibration process is applied to reduce the nonlinearity caused by the large permittivity difference between the tracer particle and other fine particles in the measurement zone. The local dynamic threshold selection method is performed on the reconstructed image to locate the tracer particles position. Static simulations and dynamic experiments testify that tracer particles with a diameter of one ninth of the measured cross-section and a fluidization velocity v/nu(cr)<= 4.2 can be accurately located and traced. Employing this method to trace the motion of a spherical object in a bed shows that the fluidization velocity significantly influences the directional motion of a large, heavy object on an inclined air distributor. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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