J0502-2-4 USING ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY IN DETERMING TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION ON A POLYCARBONATE MATERIAL DURING PHASE CHANGE

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010.7 (0) ◽  
pp. 135-136
Author(s):  
Kristian Gunayan Basario ◽  
Je-Eun CHOI ◽  
Masahiro TAKEI
Author(s):  
Yusuke Hirose ◽  
Kazuaki Hata ◽  
Sapkota Achyut ◽  
Masahiro Takei

This study has launched a concept to measure real time two-dimensional temperature distribution non-invasively by a combination of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) technique and a permittivity-temperature equation for plastic pellets. The concept has two steps which are the relative permittivity calculation from the measured capacitance among the many electrodes by ECT technique, and the temperature distribution calculation from the relative permittivity distribution by permittivity-temperature equation. ECT sensor with 12-electrode is designed to measure and visualize the cross sectional temperature distribution during polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) pellets cooling process. The images of the normalized relative permittivity distribution are successfully reconstructed at every time step during the process. The images indicate that the normalized relative permittivity of PMMA pellets is decreased as the temperature is decreased.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Porzuczek

Abstract The paper presents a review of current achievements in the Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) in relation to its possible applications in the study of phenomena occurring in fluidised bed reactors. Reactors of that kind are being increasingly used in chemical engineering, energetics (fluidised bed boilers) or industrial dryers. However, not all phenomena in the fluidised bed have been thoroughly understood. This results in the need to explore and develop new research methods. Various aspects of ECT operation and data processing are described with their applicability in scientific research. The idea for investigation of temperature distribution in the fluidised bed, using multimodal tomography, is also introduced. Metrological requirements of process tomography such as sensitivity, resolution, and speed of data acquiring are noted.


Author(s):  
Yusuke Hirose ◽  
Kristian Basario ◽  
Tong Zhao ◽  
Masahiro Takei

This study has launched a concept to measure real time two-dimensional temperature distribution non-invasively by a combination of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) technique and Debye equation. The concept has two steps which are the relative permittivity calculation from the measured capacitance among the many electrodes by ECT technique, and the temperature distribution calculation from the relative permittivity distribution by Debye equation. ECT sensor with 8 or 12-electrode is designed to measure and visualize the cross sectional temperature distribution in heating water as a basic experiment and melting polycarbonate pellets as a main experiment. Consequently, it is found that the water capacitance is changed by 1.14×10−6F as every 1.0 degree Celsius water temperature change. Moreover, the images of the temperature distribution from the relative permittivity distribution are reconstructed at every time step during the polycarbonate melting process. The non-invasive temperature values by a combination of ECT technique and Debye equation were compared with the invasive temperature values by the thermocouples. The non-invasive values have a good agreement with the invasive values by approximate 5%.


2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (28) ◽  
Author(s):  
MT Masturah ◽  
MHF Rahiman ◽  
Zulkarnay Zakaria ◽  
AR Rahim ◽  
NM Ayob

This paper discussed the design–functionality and application of Flexible Electrical Capacitance Tomography sensor (FlexiECT). The sensors consist of 12 electrodes allocated surrounding the outer layer of the pipeline. The sensor is designed in such that the flexibility features suit the applications in the pipeline of multiple size. This paper also discussed the preliminary result of FlexiECT applications in fluid imaging by identifying the percentage of two mixing fluids.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Kandlbinder-Paret ◽  
Alice Fischerauer ◽  
Gerhard Fischerauer

Abstract In electrical capacitance tomography (ECT), the resolution of the reconstructed permittivity distribution improves with the number of electrodes used whereas the number of capacitance measurements and the measurement time increases with the number of electrodes. To cope with this tradeoff, we present a phantom-dependent adaptation scheme in which coarse measurements are performed with terminal electrodes interconnected to form a synthetic electrode ring with fewer but larger electrodes. The concept was tested by observing the sloshing of water inside a pipe. We compare the reconstructed results based on eight synthetic electrodes, on 16 elementary electrodes, and on the adaptation scheme involving both the eight synthetic electrodes and some of the elementary capacitances. The reconstruction used the projected Landweber algorithm for capacitances determined by a finite-element simulation and for measured capacitances. The results contain artefacts attributed to the influence of the high permittivity of water compared to the low permittivity of the pipe wall. The adaptation scheme leads to nearly the same information as a full measurement of all 120 elementary capacitances but only requires the measurement of 30 % fewer capacitances. By detecting the fill level using a tomometric method, it can be determined within an uncertainty of 5 % FS.


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