Fouling detection using hammer impact test and wireless comunication

Author

Lemos, Luiz Carlos ; Neto, J. M R Souza ; Silva, J.J. ; Neto, J. S Rocha

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

There is a persistent problem that continues to be a relevant demand for the chemical, petroleum, food and pharmaceutical industries. This problem is the fouling detection in systems of ducts. This work shows how the previous tests to develop a platform for detecting fouling of pipes analyze specific locations using the impact hammer test with wireless communication. To minimize the costs of maintaining the pipes and make the system feasible, this platform is practical and portable. Thus, based on previous studies and techniques already developed for the detection of fouling, there is now a portable system allowing great mobility monitoring platform.

Keywords

computerised monitoring; ducts; flaw detection; hammers (machines); impact (mechanical); maintenance engineering; vibration measurement; wireless sensor networks; duct system; hammer impact test; mobility monitoring platform; pipe fouling detection; pipe maintenance cost minimisation; vibration amplitude analysis; wireless communication; Accelerometers; Electron tubes; Monitoring; Transceivers; Vibrations; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Vibrations amplitude analysis; accelerometer; hammer impact test; wireless sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Binjiang

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7933-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944168

Filename

5944168