Particle diameter acquisition device, particle diameter acquisition system, and particle diameter acquisition method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10866180-B2
Application number	US-202016787697-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2020
Priority date	Apr 15, 2019
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

A particle diameter acquisition device includes an intensity distribution acquisition unit configured to acquire an intensity distribution of scattered light scattered from a multi-phase flow including dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with irradiation light, an attenuation gradient acquisition unit configured to acquire an attenuation gradient in the intensity distribution on the basis of the intensity distribution of the scattered light, a concentration acquisition unit configured to acquire a concentration of the dispersed phase in the multi-phase flow, a database configured to store intensity distribution data which is an intensity distribution of scattered light for each particle diameter and concentration of a dispersed phase, and a particle diameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a particle diameter of the dispersed phase on the basis of the acquired attenuation gradient, concentration, and intensity distribution data with reference to the intensity distribution data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A particle diameter acquisition device comprising:
an intensity distribution acquisition unit which is configured to acquire an intensity distribution of scattered light scattered from a multi-phase flow including a dispersed phase at a time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with irradiation light;
an attenuation gradient acquisition unit which is configured to acquire an attenuation gradient in the intensity distribution on the basis of the intensity distribution of the scattered light;
a concentration acquisition unit which is configured to acquire a concentration of the dispersed phase in the multi-phase flow;
a database which is configured to store intensity distribution data which is an intensity distribution of scattered light for each particle diameter and concentration of a dispersed phase; and
a particle diameter acquisition unit which is configured to acquire a particle diameter of the dispersed phase on the basis of the acquired attenuation gradient, concentration, and intensity distribution data with reference to the intensity distribution data.

2. The particle diameter acquisition device according to claim 1 , wherein the dispersed phase is droplets.

3. The particle diameter acquisition device according to claim 1 , wherein the irradiation light is invisible light.

4. A particle diameter acquisition system comprising:
the particle diameter acquisition device according to claim 1 ;
a nozzle which is configured to spray a multi-phase flow;
a light source which is configured to irradiate the multi-phase flow with irradiation light; and
a detection unit which is configured to detect scattered Light scattered from the multi-phase flow.

5. A particle diameter acquisition device comprising:
a first intensity distribution acquisition unit which is configured to acquire a first intensity distribution of scattered light scattered from a multi-phase flow including a dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with first irradiation light;
a first attenuation gradient acquisition unit which is configured to acquire an attenuation gradient of the first intensity distribution;
a second intensity distribution acquisition unit which is configured to acquire an intensity distribution of scattered light scattered from the multi-phase flow at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with first irradiation light having a wavelength different from that of the first irradiation light;
a second attenuation gradient acquisition unit which is configured to acquire an attenuation gradient of the second intensity distribution;
a first database which is configured to store first correlation data which is a correlation between a particle diameter for each concentration of the dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with the first irradiation light and an attenuation gradient of an intensity distribution of scattered light;
a second database which is configured to store second correlation data which is a correlation between a particle diameter for each concentration of the dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with the first irradiation light and an attenuation gradient of an intensity distribution of scattered light; and
a particle diameter acquisition unit which is configured to acquire a particle diameter of the dispersed phase on the basis of the attenuation gradient of the firm intensity distribution and the attenuation gradient of the second intensity distribution with reference to the first correlation data and the second correlation data.

6. The particle diameter acquisition device according to claim 5 , wherein the dispersed phase is droplets.

7. The particle diameter acquisition device according to claim 5 , wherein the irradiation light is invisible light.

8. A particle diameter acquisition system comprising:
the particle diameter acquisition device according to claim 5 ;
a nozzle which is configured to spray a multi-phase flow;
a light source which is configured to irradiate the multi-phase flow with irradiation light; and
a detection unit which is configured to detect scattered light scattered from the multi-phase flow.

9. A particle diameter acquisition method comprising:
an intensity distribution acquisition step of acquiring an intensity distribution of scattered light scattered from a multi-phase flow including a dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with irradiation light;
an attenuation gradient acquisition step of acquiring an attenuation gradient in the intensity distribution on the basis of the intensity distribution of the scattered light;
a concentration acquisition step of acquiring a concentration of the dispersed phase in the multi-phase flow; and
a particle diameter acquisition step of acquiring a particle diameter of the dispersed phase on the basis of the acquired attenuation gradient, concentration, and intensity distribution data with reference to a database which is configured to store intensity distribution data which is an intensity distribution of scattered light for each particle diameter and concentration of a dispersed phase.

10. A particle diameter acquisition method comprising:
a first intensity distribution acquisition step of acquiring a first intensity distribution of scattered light scattered from a multi-phase flow including a dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with first irradiation light;
a first attenuation gradient acquisition step of acquiring an attenuation gradient of the first intensity distribution;
a second intensity distribution acquisition step of acquiring an intensity distribution of scattered light scattered from the multi-phase flow at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with first irradiation light having a wavelength different from that of the first irradiation light;
a second attenuation gradient acquisition step of acquiring an attenuation gradient of the second intensity distribution; and
a particle diameter acquisition step of acquiring a particle diameter of the dispersed phase on the basis of the attenuation gradient of the first intensity distribution and the attenuation gradient of the second intensity distribution with reference to a first database which is configured to store first correlation data which is a correlation between a particle diameter for each concentration of the dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with the first irradiation light and an attenuation gradient of an intensity distribution of scattered light, and a second database which is configured to store second correlation data which is a correlation between a particle diameter for each concentration of the dispersed phase at the time of irradiating the multi-phase flow with the first irradiation light and an attenuation gradient of an intensity distribution of scattered light.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Kondo Yoshiyuki
• KOMURO Yoshiteru
• Kodama Atsushi
• Tanimoto Koichi

Classifications

• G01N2015/0046

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• G01N15/0227 Primary

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• G01N15/0211 Primary

  Investigating a scatter or diffraction pattern · CPC title

• G01N15/06

  Investigating concentration of particle suspensions (by weighing G01N5/00; investigating sedimentation of particle suspensions G01N15/04; investigating individual particles G01N15/10) · CPC title