Data acquisition and analysis on the two-color-laser transmissometer system

Author

Shu, Hao-Feng ; Benton, Richard D.

Author_Institution

Diagnostic Instrum. & Anal. Lab., Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

7-10 Apr 1991

Firstpage

810

Abstract

The average particle size and number density in a gas stream are measured by the two-color laser transmissometer in different locations of a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power plant. In order to speed up signal collection and analysis, an IBM AT computer is used to control online laser intensity signal sampling and data processing. The operating software, written in the C language, performs data acquisition and data analysis by a series of functional modules. A data conversion board is used for the analog-to-digital signal conversion. The system has been tested and implemented in a test at a pilot scale MHD facility. The measured results illustrate the changes in particle size during the test

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; data analysis; density measurement; flow measurement; measurement by laser beam; particle size measurement; two-phase flow; C language; IBM AT computer; analog-to-digital signal conversion; average particle size measurement; coal slag; data acquisition; data analysis; data conversion board; data processing; functional modules; gas stream; magnetohydrodynamic power plant; number density; online laser intensity; pilot scale MHD facility; power plant; signal sampling; two-color-laser transmissometer; Data acquisition; Data analysis; Density measurement; Gas lasers; Magnetic analysis; Magnetohydrodynamics; Particle measurements; Power measurement; Size measurement; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '91., IEEE Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Williamsburg, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0033-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1991.147871

Filename

147871