Detecting regime transitions in gas-solid fluidized beds from low frequency accelerometry signals

Powder Technology

Volumn 207, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 104-112

  de Martín, Lilian ^a   Briongos, Javier Villa ^b   García Hernando, Néstor ^b   Aragón, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Acoustics; Fluidization; Nonlinear dynamics; Process control; Regime transition

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; COLORED NOISE; COMMON FEATURES; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; FILTER STRATEGY; GAS-SOLID FLUIDIZED BED; KOLMOGOROV; KOLMOGOROV ENTROPY; LOW FREQUENCY; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; PRESSURE SIGNAL; REGIME TRANSITION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PROCESS CONTROL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; EXTRACTION; FLUIDIZED BED; GAS; HYPOTHESIS; NOISE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 78751577614     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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