Online measuring method of particle velocity in multiphase system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10247750-B2
Application number	US-201615368804-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2016
Priority date	Apr 19, 2016
Publication date	Apr 2, 2019
Grant date	Apr 2, 2019

Abstract

The present invention provides an online measuring method of particle (such as bubbles, droplets and solid particles) velocity in multiphase reactor. The method based on an online multiphase measuring instrument includes the following steps: (1) the online multiphase measuring instrument is placed into the multiphase reactor, and then a particle image produced by two or more exposures are obtained; (2) the actual size of individual pixel in the particle image is determined; (3) valid particles are determined in the depth of field; (4) then the centroid coordinates are conversed to the actual length of the coordinates (x t,i , y t,i ) and (x t+Δt,i , y t+Δt,i ) using the actual size of individual pixel. Thus, the instantaneous velocity of particles can be calculated by
V i = ( x t + Δ ⁢ ⁢ t , i - x t , i ) 2 + ( y t + Δ ⁢ ⁢ t , i - y t , i ) 2 Δ ⁢ ⁢ t .
The method can realize real-time measurement of the velocity distribution of bubbles, droplets or solid particles in a multiphase reactor, and the measurement accuracy is high.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An online measuring method of particle velocity in multiphase system, based on an online multiphase measuring instrument comprising:
a package tube;
a viewport, sealedly installed at a front end of the package tube;
an illumination system for illuminating multiphase flow, including LED lamps and a brightness-adjustable light source connected with the LED lamps, which comprises a power supply, a signal generator and an oscilloscope;
a photographic system for taking pictures, including a telecentric lens and an image sensor;
a controller connected with the signal generator and the image sensor;
a signal processing and outputting system connected with the image sensor;
a display system connected with the signal processing and outputting system;
the LED lamps, the telecentric lens and the image sensor are located in the package tube and the exposure period of the image sensor is greater than the pulse period of the signal generator, controlled by the controller;
wherein the measuring method includes the following steps:
(1) the online multiphase measuring instrument is placed in a multiphase system; the exposure time t 1 of the image sensor and the pulse period t 2 of the signal generator are controlled to meet the condition t 1 >2t 2 , and a double-exposure particle image is obtained;
(2) the actual size of individual pixel in the image is determined;
(3) valid particles are determined using the following steps: first, the focal plane position of the telecentric lens is determined; then, an object to be measured is respectively arranged on the front of the package tube, the l/2 positions ahead of or behind the focal plane, where l is the telecentric lens depth of field in mm; the object to be measured is photographed by the online multiphase measuring instrument, and the image of the object is obtained and a gray gradient Grad(Φ l/2 ) around the boundary of the measured object is determined, where Φ l/2 is the gray value at the ±l/2 positions ahead of or behind the focal plane; if Grad(Φ) is greater than or equal to Grad(Φ l/2 ), the particle is labeled as a valid one;
(4) the double-exposure image of the same valid particle is identified; the lower left corner of the particle image is set as coordinate origin; in accordance with the order “binarization, interception of part of the area and centroid extraction”, the centroid coordinates (m t,i , n t,i ) and (m t+Δt,i , n t+Δt,i ) are read; then the centroid coordinates are conversed to the actual length of the coordinates (x t,i , y t,i ) and (x t+Δt,i , y t+Δt,i ) using the actual size of individual pixel obtained in step (2),
so the instantaneous velocity of particles is calculated by:

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where Δt is the time interval between twice exposures.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step (1), the exposure time of the image sensor is 2.7-3.0 times of the pulse period of the signal generator.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step (2), a graduated ruler with an accuracy of at least 0.1 mm is used to determine the actual size of individual pixel.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the double-exposure image of the same valid particle is identified by a particle matching algorithm in Step (4);
a particle correlation algorithm is used to conduct time-matching of the particles in the particle matching algorithm.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the distribution of the average flow field of the particle velocity in the multiphase system is obtained by means of averaging of the instantaneous velocity based on a particle image containing at least 4000 particles for a period of time.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the particle image in Step (1) is an image of anyone selected from the group consisting of bubbles, droplets or solid particles in a multiphase system, or a combination of at least two selected therefrom.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the work distance of the telecentric lens is 250-550 mm and the depth of field is 1-3.7 mm.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the magnification of the telecentric lens is 0.5-1 time.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the external diameter of the telecentric lens is 19-25 mm.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the image sensor is a CCD camera or a CMOS camera.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the exposure time of the CCD camera or CMOS camera is less than or equal to 1 ms; the resolution is 5-15 μm; the number of pixels in length and width is at least 800×600; the frame frequency is at le

Assignees

• Inst Process Eng Cas
• Nanjing Jiuzhang Chemical Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Chao
• Li Xiangyang
• Wang Haoliang
• Wang Guanqi
• Mao Zaisha

Classifications

• H04N23/74

  by influencing the scene brightness using illuminating means · CPC title

• H04N23/73

  by influencing the exposure time · CPC title

• G01N2015/0053

  in liquids, e.g. trouble · CPC title

• G01P5/20 Primary

  using particles entrained by a fluid stream (G01P5/22 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01N2015/0046

  in gas, e.g. smoke · CPC title