| Autor: |
Cesar Yutaka Ofuchi, Henrique Krainer Eidt, Dalton Bertoldi, Marco Jose Da Silva, Rigoberto E. M. Morales, Flavio Neves |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 194477-194484 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2169-3536 |
| DOI: |
10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3033425 |
| Popis: |
In this article, we propose a novel ultrasonic technique to measure the gas void fraction in a liquid-gas intermittent swirling flow. The method converts the liquid film thickness measurement to a gas void fraction value considering a symmetrical flow pattern. We propose the use of the first echo peak instead of the standard maximum echo peak to estimate the liquid film thickness. The results are compared with a wire-mesh sensor, a reference for gas void fraction measurement, in a 1-inch inner-diameter vertical flow loop. A Root-Mean-Square-Deviation (RMSD) of 2.87% was observed between the proposed ultrasonic method and the reference sensor. An improvement of 6.06% if compared to the standard film thickness method (8.93%). The studied cases show that our method improves the use of ultrasound for gas void fraction measurement in a gas-liquid swirling flow. |
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