Optimum Electrical Capacitance Tomography Sensor For Oil-Height Determination

There are two types of tomography systems, medical tomography and process tomography. ECT is one of the branches of process tomography. ECT or Electrical Capacitance Tomography is one of the techniques to measure the internal spatial distribution of materials. This new and very detailed knowle...

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Main Author: Hamzah, Muhamed Sufian
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2005
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/57793/1/Optimum%20Electrical%20Capacitance%20Tomography%20Sensor%20For%20Oil-Height%20Determination_Muhamed%20Sufian%20Hamzah.pdf
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Summary:There are two types of tomography systems, medical tomography and process tomography. ECT is one of the branches of process tomography. ECT or Electrical Capacitance Tomography is one of the techniques to measure the internal spatial distribution of materials. This new and very detailed knowledge allows improved design of process equipment. ECT process is based on the electromagnet properties of components in the volume measurement. In this thesis, MATLAB is used to generate raw ECT dataset with using an ECT simulator. The variable value of an ECT design parameters affect the sensitivity of raw ECT dataset. In this project, the range of pipe thickness, R2 is uses 1.02 to 1.38 units and the range of electrode angle, θ is 5' to 24'. The mean of absolute error with comparison between oil height target and oil height ANN measurement is plot in two graphs, mean absolute error versus parameter R2 and mean absolute error versus parameter θ. The graphs show the changes in oil height estimation that occur when the ECT system parameters are changed.