The recalibration of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) system is one of the key problems in keeping the system running steadily.However, for engineering application in solids/gas transport,online calibration can...The recalibration of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) system is one of the key problems in keeping the system running steadily.However, for engineering application in solids/gas transport,online calibration can not be implemented and the data from this sensor may be unreliable due to the sensor pipe interior wall abrasion during pneumatic transport,so the solids concentration calculated from the reconstructed image based on these data will be highly inaccurate.The simulations show that, the inter-electrode relative capacitance variation of electrode pair spacing 1 is the most sensitive to the abrasion of sensor pipe interior wall, so this relative capacitance variation when the sensor is filled with air can be used as an indicator demanding offline system recalibration when the wall abrasion goes significant.Furthermore, while the pipe interior wall abrasion is not very serious, online correcting measured inter-electrode capacitance with wall capacitance variation can improve the accuracy of concentration calculation.展开更多
文摘The recalibration of electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) system is one of the key problems in keeping the system running steadily.However, for engineering application in solids/gas transport,online calibration can not be implemented and the data from this sensor may be unreliable due to the sensor pipe interior wall abrasion during pneumatic transport,so the solids concentration calculated from the reconstructed image based on these data will be highly inaccurate.The simulations show that, the inter-electrode relative capacitance variation of electrode pair spacing 1 is the most sensitive to the abrasion of sensor pipe interior wall, so this relative capacitance variation when the sensor is filled with air can be used as an indicator demanding offline system recalibration when the wall abrasion goes significant.Furthermore, while the pipe interior wall abrasion is not very serious, online correcting measured inter-electrode capacitance with wall capacitance variation can improve the accuracy of concentration calculation.
