Energies (Jul 2022)

Review of Selected Advances in Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography for Multiphase Flow Monitoring

  • Rafiul K. Rasel,
  • Shah M. Chowdhury,
  • Qussai M. Marashdeh,
  • Fernando L. Teixeira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/en15145285
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 14
p. 5285

Abstract

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Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) has emerged as an attractive technology for addressing instrumentation requirements in various energy-related multiphase flow systems. ECVT can monitor multiple flow conditions and reconstruct real-time 3D images from capacitance measurements using a large set of electrode plates placed around the processes column enclosing the sensed flow system. ECVT is non-intrusive and allows the measurement of changes in mutual capacitance between all possible plate pair combinations. The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of recent advances in ECVT, enabling robust monitoring of multiphase flows, especially water-containing multiphase flows.

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