Monitoring sintering burn-through point using infrared thermography

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 10287-10305

  Usamentiaga, Rubén ^a   Molleda, Julio ^a   Garcia, Daniel F ^a   Bulnes, Francisco G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active contour segmentation; Feature extraction; Infrared thermography; Sintering burn through point

Indexed keywords

BLAST FURNACES; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFRARED IMAGING; IRON ORE SINTER; IRON ORES; ORE SINTER; POROUS MATERIALS; PROCESS CONTROL; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; BURN THROUGH POINT; COMBUSTION ZONES; COMPLEX INDUSTRIAL PROCESS; FINE PARTICLES; REGION OF INTEREST; RELEVANT FEATURES; SINTERING PROCESS;

SINTERING;

EID: 84922977192     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130810287     Document Type: Article

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