Two methods for measurement of gas-liquid flows in vertical upward pipe using dual-plane ERT system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1576-1586

  Dong, Feng ^a   Xu, Yanbin ^a   Hua, Lei ^a   Wang, Huaxiang ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disperse phase; Electrical resistance tomography (ERT); Feature value correlation; Instantaneous flowrate; Pixel correlation; Two phase flow; Velocity; Void fraction

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIPE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CONDUCTIVE LIQUID; DISPERSE-PHASE VELOCITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIXEL CORRELATION; PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VOID FRACTION;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33749356873     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.881564     Document Type: Article

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