A novel method is developed for in-line measurements of particle size, velocity and concentration in a dilute, particulate two-phase flow based on trajectory image processing. The measurement system consists of a common industrial CCD camera, an inexpensive LED light and a telecentric lens. In this work, the image pre-processing steps include stitching, illumination correction, binarization, denoising, and the elimination of unreal and defocused particles. A top-hat transformation is found to be very effective for the binarization of images with non-uniform background illumination. Particle trajectories measured within a certain exposure time are used to directly obtain particle size and velocity. The particle concentration is calculated by using the statistics of recognized particles within the field of view. We validate our method by analyzing experiments in a gas-droplet cyclone separator. This in-line image processing method can significantly reduce the measurement cost and avoid the data inversion process involved in the light scattering method.
Xiaozhen ChenWu ZhouXiaoshu CaiMingxu SuHailong Liu
Based on the principle of ultrasonic resonance scattering, sound-scattering characteristics of double-layer spherical particles in water were numerically studied in this paper. By solving the equations of the scat- tering matrix, the scattering coefficient determined by the boundary conditions can be obtained, thus the expression for the sound-scattering function of a single double-layer spherical particle can be derived. To describe the resonance scattering characteristics of a single particle, the reduced scattering cross section and reduced extinction cross section curves were found through numerical calculation. Similarly, the numerically calculated sound attenuation coefficient curves were used to depict the resonance scattering characteristics of monodisperse and poIydisperse particles. The results of numerical calculation showed that, for monodisperse particles, the strength of the resonance was mainly related to the particle size and the total number of particles; while for polydisperse particles, it was primarily affected by the particle size, the coverage of the particle size distribution and the particle concentration.
管道内粉体的气力输运广泛存在于化工、食品加工、电力、冶金和医药等工业生产过程中.通过对粉体颗粒的速度、体积分数和粒度等关键参数进行在线测量,可实现过程优化控制,提高生产效率和产品质量,降低能耗.本文从声散射理论模型出发,数值模拟并拟合出超声衰减系数和声速随粉体体积分数的变化关系.设计中心频率为30 k Hz的一体式超声波探针,在杭州某水泥厂输运管道进行管内不同深度测点水泥生料粉体浓度的在线测量,分别以衰减和声速方法获得管内粉体沿径向的体积分数分布.
为了验证三角形和四边形准则的二值逻辑反投影(Binary Logic Back Projection,BLBP)算法在超声层析成像重建过程中的可行性,以超声层析成像的重建区域中同时含有圆柱形和椭圆柱形障碍物为例,利用COMSOL对成像区域内存在障碍物的声场进行仿真,得到声场声压分布。然后,通过提取和处理所获取的声压分布,获得信号矩阵。最后,将信号矩阵代入二值逻辑反投影算法进行图像重建。仿真结果表明:当入射波的波长λ远小于障碍物的尺寸时,声衍射的现象并不明显。重建结果表明:两种准则在几何近似理论下可行,且四边形准则的效果优于三角形准则。
