A novel signal filtering methodology for obtaining liquid phase tracer responses from conductivity probes

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-131

  Gupta, Puneet ^a   Al Dahhan, Muthanna H ^a   Duduković, Milorad P ^a   Mills, Patrick L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble column; Conductivity probes; Gas liquid flow; Signal filtering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; ELECTRODES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; CONDUCTIVITY PROBES; FILTERING ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

BUBBLE DISTILLATION COLUMN; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIXING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0033935436     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-5986(99)00025-4     Document Type: Article

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