Mass flow measurement of fine particles in a pneumatic suspension using electrostatic sensing and neural network techniques

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2330-2334

  Yan, Yong ^a,b   Xu, Lijun ^a,b,c   Lee, Peter ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrostatic sensor; Mass flow measurement; Neural network; Pneumatic conveying; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC SENSING; ELECTROSTATIC SENSORS; MASS FLOW MEASUREMENT; PNEUMATIC CONVEYING; PNEUMATICALLY CONVEYED SOLIDS;

BACKPROPAGATION; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF SOLIDS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 33947320126     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.887040     Document Type: Article

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