A Water Fraction Measurement Method Using Heuristic-Algorithm-Based Electrical Capacitance Tomography Images Post-Processing Technology

This paper presents a sectional water fraction measurement method using electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) image. To achieve a desired measurement accuracy, an optimal threshold-search method based on fast simulated annealing (FSA) algorithm is applied for image binarization; and to guarantee the imaging time consumption, fast fixed point continuation (FFPC) iterative algorithm cooperating with the compressed sensing (CS) theory was applied to the image reconstruction. In this study, the imaging time consumption and the measurement accuracy of water fraction are used to compare the proposed method and other methods. A numerical model is established with COMSOL Multiphysics to conduct the simulative validation of the proposed method firstly and physical experiments are conducted then. The experiment results show the average relative error of water fraction is lower than 15%, where the even as low as 3.68%.