Computer Vision-Based Classification of Flow Regime and Vapor Quality in Vertical Two-Phase Flow.

Autor: Kadish S; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 8001, South Africa., Schmid D; The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland., Son J; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 8001, South Africa., Boje E; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 8001, South Africa.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) [Sensors (Basel)] 2022 Jan 27; Vol. 22 (3). Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 27.
DOI: 10.3390/s22030996
Abstrakt: This paper presents a method to classify flow regime and vapor quality in vertical two-phase (vapor-liquid) flow, using a video of the flow as the input; this represents the first high-performing and entirely camera image-based method for the classification of a vertical flow regime (which is effective across a wide range of regimes) and the first image-based tool for estimating vapor quality. The approach makes use of computer vision techniques and deep learning to train a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is used for individual frame classification and image feature extraction, and a deep long short-term memory (LSTM) network, used to capture temporal information present in a sequence of image feature sets and to make a final vapor quality or flow regime classification. This novel architecture for two-phase flow studies achieves accurate flow regime and vapor quality classifications in a practical application to two-phase CO 2 flow in vertical tubes, based on offline data and an online prototype implementation, developed as a proof of concept for the use of these models within a feedback control loop. The use of automatically selected image features, produced by a CNN architecture in three distinct tasks comprising flow-image classification, flow-regime classification, and vapor quality prediction, confirms that these features are robust and useful, and offer a viable alternative to manually extracting image features for image-based flow studies. The successful application of the LSTM network reveals the significance of temporal information for image-based studies of two-phase flow.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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