Microwave mass flow meter for pneumatic conveyed particulate solids

Author

Penirschke, Andreas ; Puentes, Margarita ; Maune, Holger ; Schussler, Martin ; Gaebler, Alexander ; Jakoby, Rolf

Author_Institution

Lab. of Wireless Commun., Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

5-7 May 2009

Firstpage

583

Lastpage

588

Abstract

A particulates mass flow meter has been developed using a composite right/left-handed transmission line resonator. The presented sensor principle promises the possibility to design precise particulate solids mass flow meter with moderate costs. The Spatial Filter Velocimetry is applied to the sensor in order to detect the velocity information. The simultaneous detection of the velocity and the solids/air concentration from a single measurement, ensure a true mass flow detector. The detector offers good prospects for industrial applications with various scenarios of gas/solids, gas/liquid and liquid/solids flows.

Keywords

flowmeters; microwave measurement; resonators; spatial filters; transmission lines; velocimeters; composite left-handed transmission line resonator; composite right-handed transmission line resonator; industrial applications; mass flow detector; microwave mass flow meter; pneumatic conveyed particulate solids; precise particulate solid mass flow meter; spatial filter velocimetry; Costs; Fluid flow measurement; Frequency; Microwave sensors; Microwave theory and techniques; Permittivity measurement; Pipelines; Radar detection; Sensor systems; Solids; Composite right/left-handed metamaterial; mass flow meters; permittivity measurement; pneumatic conveying; spatial filtering velocimetry; transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2009. I2MTC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3352-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168518

Filename

5168518