Synchronous high-speed photographing method and device for microparticle rotation in liquid cyclone field

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10598585-B2
Application number	US-201515324552-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2015
Priority date	Jul 8, 2014
Publication date	Mar 24, 2020
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020

Abstract

A method and a device for synchronous high-speed photographing of microparticle rotation in a liquid cyclone field and for determining the rotation velocity of a microparticle in a liquid cyclone field by using a combination of a synchronous high-speed photographing system and a transparent microparticle containing two centrosymmetrically arranged inner cores having the same diameter. The method comprises: using a transparent microparticle comprising two inner cores having the same diameter and arranged centrosymmetrically as a rotation test particle; acquiring synchronously two groups of two dimensional image series of microparticle motion in a liquid cyclone field using two orthogonally arranged high-speed digital cameras; and reconstructing a three dimensional motion trajectory of the microparticle from the two groups of synchronous image series, and determining a rotation velocity of the microparticle in the cyclone field at the same time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A synchronous high-speed photographing method for microparticle rotation in a liquid cyclone field, comprising:
(1) using a transparent microparticle comprising two inner cores having the same diameter and arranged centrosymmetrically as a rotation test particle;
(2) acquiring synchronously two groups of two dimensional image series of microparticle motion in the liquid cyclone field using two orthogonally arranged high-speed digital cameras; and
(3) reconstructing a three dimensional motion trajectory of the transparent microparticle from the two groups of two dimensional image series, and determining a rotation velocity of the transparent microparticle in the liquid cyclone field at the same time.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the rotation test particle is a spherical particle having a transparent or translucent shell and containing two centrosymmetrically arranged inner core particles which have a deep color and the same diameter, wherein the test particle has a diameter of less than 500 microns and high monodispersity (coefficient of variation <5%).

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the two high-speed digital cameras are arranged orthogonally, a synchronous photographing error is less than 10 microseconds, and a depth of field of the two high-speed cameras is no less than 20% of the diameter of the liquid cyclone field.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method reconstructs the three dimensional motion trajectory in a zone to be tested by fitting two dimensional motion trajectories of the transparent microparticle in the two groups of two dimensional image series.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method determines the rotation velocity of the transparent microparticle by analyzing the overlapping and separating frequency of projections of the two inner cores in the transparent microparticle in the two groups of two dimensional image series, wherein the test particle has a discrimination precision of rotational angle of 90 degrees.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method determines simultaneously a revolution motion of the transparent microparticle in the liquid cyclone field around a geometric center of the liquid cyclone field and a rotation motion around its own instantaneous axis.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the liquid cyclone field has a maximum tangent velocity of no more than 10 m/s.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the method uses only one of the high-speed cameras to determine the rotation velocity of the transparent microparticle, and uses the other one for three dimensional positioning.

9. A synchronous high-speed photographing device for microparticle rotation in a liquid cyclone field, comprising:
a cyclone separation experimental apparatus for providing a cyclone field to be tested; two high-speed digital cameras for synchronous measurement; a large power LED cold light source for providing strong white light; a synchronous trigger for the high-speed digital cameras; and a computer for controlling the high-speed digital cameras and storing data.

10. The device of claim 9 , wherein the cyclone separation experimental apparatus is a circulating system, wherein the experimental apparatus comprises a reservoir for storing liquid and a vortex pump connected to the reservoir for pressurizing the liquid, wherein an outlet of the vortex pump divides into two routes, along one of which a fluid goes back to the reservoir through a backflow valve, along the other of which another liquid goes through a flow valve and a particle feeding connector and then enters an optical quartz glass microcyclone, wherein the fluid from both the top and the bottom of the quartz glass microcyclone returns to the reservoir, wherein a pressure meter is arranged at each of an inlet and two outlets of the quartz glass microcyclone, and a flow meter and a control valve are further arranged at the inlet and a top outlet.

11. The device of claim 9 or 10 , wherein a stainless steel needle having an inner diameter of 1.5 mm is disposed inside an particle feeding connector, wherein a needle injects the microparticle through an inlet of a quartz glass microcyclone into the cyclone field.

12. The device of claim 9 , wherein one of the high-speed digital cameras has a frame frequency of 10000 fps or more, a minimum exposure time of 1 microsecond or less, and a resolution of 800×600 or more; and the other of the high-speed digital cameras has a frame frequency of 2000 fps or more, a minimum exposure time of 1 microsecond or less, and a resolution of 800×600 or more.

13. The device of claim 9 , wherein the two high-speed digital cameras use macrolens.

14. The device of claim 9 , wherein the large power LED cold light source has a lighting color temperature of 5500-8000K and a luminous flux of 12000 Lm or more.

15. The device of claim 10 , wherein the optical quartz glass microcyclone has a nominal diameter of 40 mm or less, an inlet operating pressure of 0.1 MPa-0.3 MPa, and an operating temperature of 50° C. or less.

16. The device of claim 12 , wherein the high-speed digital camera can photograph the microparticle rotation alone.

Assignees

• Univ East China Science & Tech

Inventors

• Wang Hualin
• Huang Yuan
• Qiu Yang
• Fu Pengbo
• Zhang Yanhong
• Bai Zhishan
• Yang Qiang
• He Fengqin

Classifications

• G06T7/292

  Multi-camera tracking · CPC title

• G01N15/14 Primary

  Optical investigation techniques, e.g. flow cytometry · CPC title

• G06T2207/30241

  Trajectory · CPC title

• G01N2015/1445

  Three-dimensional imaging, imaging in different image planes, e.g. under different angles or at different depths, e.g. by a relative motion of sample and detector, for instance by tomography · CPC title

• G01N15/1468

  with spatial resolution of the texture or inner structure of the particle · CPC title