Optical Analysis of Fractional Particles

Abstract

Analysis of fractal particles, like sawdust or dust, by sieve method is rather difficult in terms of the measuring system and time-consuming at samples evaluation. The results give only partial information of the particle dimensions in an examinable sample. Modern optical methods of fractal particles analysis in the industry complexly acquaint with the sample; they provide information about the particle rate and size, average, maximum and minimum occurring dimension, particle surface, and shape composition of a sample. In our experiment were evaluated wood particles with IP camera IQEye 702. Camera captures the scene with sawdust and send video via ethernet. In program Matlab is in time captured in this video one picture, which is further processed and in it are found measured particles. Subsequently are measured required parameters of captured particles.

Keywords

• particle dimensions
• sawdust
• camera
• image analysis
• MATLAB