METHODS FOR MONITORING GRAVITATIONAL FLOW IN SILOS  USING TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE PROCESSING

Krzysztof Grudzień; Dominik  Sankowski

doi:10.5604/01.3001.0010.4577

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Published: Mar 3, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.4577

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.4577

Authors

Krzysztof Grudzień

kgrudzi@iis.p.lodz.pl

Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science

Dominik Sankowski

dsan@iis.p.lodz.pl

Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science

Abstract

The article presents the methods of monitoring of the process of gravitational silo discharging with aid of tomography techniques. The described methods apply to funnel and mass flow measurement. The core unit of the presented monitoring system is an image-processing module, while the images are obtained with aid of the electrical capacitance tomography. For the funnel type of flow, the outputs of image processing are parameters describing the process flow, location and material concentration in funnel area. In the case of the mass flow regime the presented method provides information about the parameters of shear zones arising by the wall region of the silo that influence the interaction between the bulk and silo construction during silo discharging.

Keywords:

electrical capacitance tomography, tomography image processing, gravitational flow, granular material

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Grudzień, K., & Sankowski, D. . (2017). METHODS FOR MONITORING GRAVITATIONAL FLOW IN SILOS USING TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE PROCESSING . Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary W Gospodarce I Ochronie Środowiska, 7(1), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.4577

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