On-line automatic detection of wood pellets in pneumatically conveyed wood dust flow

Sun, Duo and Yan, Yong and Carter, Robert M. and Gao, Lingjun and Qian, Xiangchen and Lu, Gang (2013) On-line automatic detection of wood pellets in pneumatically conveyed wood dust flow. In: The 8th International Symposium on Measurement Techniques for Multiphase Flows (ISMTMF 2013), 13-15 December 2013, Guangzhou, China. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4872088) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Abstract

This paper presents a piezoelectric transducer based system for on-line automatic detection of wood pellets in wood dust flow in pneumatic conveying pipelines. The piezoelectric transducer senses non-intrusively the collisions between wood pellets and the pipe wall. Wavelet-based denoising is adopted to eliminate environmental noise and recover the collision events. Then the wood pellets are identified by sliding a time window through the denoised signal with a suitable threshold. Experiments were carried out on a laboratory test rig and on an industrial pneumatic conveying pipeline to assess the effectiveness and operability of the system.

Item Type:	Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Subjects:	T Technology
Divisions:	Faculties > Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts Faculties > Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts > Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems
Depositing User:	Tina Thompson
Date Deposited:	12 Jun 2014 09:14 UTC
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2014 09:14 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/41398 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)