Description of the silo flow and bulk solid pulsation detection using ECT

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 198-206

  Grudzien, Krzysztof ^a   Romanowski, Andrzej ^a   Chaniecki, Zbigniew ^a   Niedostatkiewicz, Maciej ^b   Sankowski, Dominik ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dynamic effects; Electrical Capacitance Tomography; Raw data; Reconstructed image interpretation; Silo flow

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC EFFECTS; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; RAW DATA; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SILO FLOW;

CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TESTING;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955842389     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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