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On-line nonintrusive detection of wood pellets in pneumatic conveying pipelines using vibration and acoustic sensors

  • Duo Sun
  • , Yong Yan
  • , Robert M. Carter
  • , Lingjun Gao
  • , Gang Lu
  • , Gerry Riley
  • , Matthew Wood
  • University of Kent
  • RWE Power AG

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel instrumentation system for on-line nonintrusive detection of wood pellets in pneumatic conveying pipelines using vibration and acoustic sensors. The system captures the vibration and sound generated by the collisions between biomass particles and the pipe wall. Time-frequency analysis technique is used to eliminate environmental noise from the signal, extract information about the collisions, and identify the presence of wood pellets. Experiments were carried out on an industrial pneumatic conveying pipeline to assess effectiveness and operability. The impacts of various factors on the performance of the detection system are compared and discussed, including different sensing (vibration sensor versus acoustic sensor), different time-frequency analysis methods (wavelet-based denoising versus classic filtering), and different system installation locations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6679243
Pages (from-to)993-1001
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Volume63
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Acoustic sensor
  • large biomass particle detection
  • pneumatic conveying
  • solids handling
  • time-frequency analysis
  • vibration sensor
  • wavelet-based denoising
  • wood pellets

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