An intelligent measurement system for powder flowrate measurement in pneumatic conveying system

Author

Huang, Zhiyao ; Wang, Baoliang ; Li, Haiqing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Control Sci. & Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1237

Abstract

A novel method for the on-line measurement of powder flowrate in pneumatic conveying system is proposed. It is a nonrestrictive method based on the measurement values of total pressure drop of gas-solid two-phase flow and the powder concentration, and also has the advantage of simplicity, reliability and low cost. An intelligent measurement system for the powder flowrate measurement is developed. The experimental results show that the maximum measurement error is satisfactory for industrial application

Keywords

calibration; computerised instrumentation; conveyors; data acquisition; flow measurement; flowmeters; granular flow; pneumatic systems; powders; Newton algorithm; computer processing system; gas-solid two-phase flow; industrial application; intelligent measurement system; low cost; model calibration; nonrestrictive method; on-line measurement; pneumatic conveying system; powder concentration; powder flowrate measurement; reliability; total pressure drop; velocity estimation mathematical model; Costs; Data acquisition; Electrical equipment industry; Fluid flow measurement; Intelligent sensors; Intelligent systems; Measurement units; Powders; Temperature sensors; Transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928273

Filename

928273