In this paper we analyze the characteristics of a flow transducer based on polarized charge. The effects of the charged particles in pneumatic pipeline on the measurement pipe potential are discussed in detail and the...In this paper we analyze the characteristics of a flow transducer based on polarized charge. The effects of the charged particles in pneumatic pipeline on the measurement pipe potential are discussed in detail and the equivalent circuits of the potential measurement are presented. On this bases, the relationships between mass flowrate and the electrical potential are obtained for different time constants of the measurement circuit. A satisfactory model is presented based on the characteristics of gas solid two phase flow. The linearity of the model is verified by the experiment results. The transducer, which is coaxially connected with the transport pipeline, does not disturb the flow state and has the features of ruggedness and durability, it is especially suitable for industry process control.展开更多
A new method for the voidage measurement of gas-oil two-phase flow was proposed.The voidage measurement was implemented by the identification of flow pattern and a flow pattern specific voidage measure- ment model.The...A new method for the voidage measurement of gas-oil two-phase flow was proposed.The voidage measurement was implemented by the identification of flow pattern and a flow pattern specific voidage measure- ment model.The flow pattern identification was achieved by combining the fuzzy pattern recognition technique and the crude cross-sectional image reconstructed by the simple back projection algorithm.The genetic algorithm and the partial least square method were applied to develop the voidage measurement models.Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective.It can overcome the influence of flow pattern on the voidage measure- ment,and also has the advantages of simplicity and speediness.展开更多
The knowledge of flow regime is very important for quantifying the pressure drop, the stability and safety of two-phase flow systems. Based on image multi-feature fusion and support vector machine, a new method to ide...The knowledge of flow regime is very important for quantifying the pressure drop, the stability and safety of two-phase flow systems. Based on image multi-feature fusion and support vector machine, a new method to identify flow regime in two-phase flow was presented. Firstly, gas-liquid two-phase flow images including bub- bly flow, plug flow, slug flow, stratified flow, wavy flow, annular flow and mist flow were captured by digital high speed video systems in the horizontal tube. The image moment invariants and gray level co-occurrence matrix texture features were extracted using image processing techniques. To improve the performance of a multiple classifier system, the rough sets theory was used for reducing the inessential factors. Furthermore, the support vector machine was trained by using these eigenvectors to reduce the dimension as flow regime samples, and the flow regime intelligent identification was realized. The test results showed that image features which were reduced with the rough sets theory could excellently reflect the difference between seven typical flow regimes, and successful training the support vector machine could quickly and accurately identify seven typical flow regimes of gas-liquid two-phase flow in the horizontal tube. Image multi-feature fusion method provided a new way to identify the gas-liquid two-phase flow, and achieved higher identification ability than that of single characteristic. The overall identification accuracy was 100%, and an estimate of the image processing time was 8 ms for online flow regime identification.展开更多
As a high gravity(HIGEE)unit,the rotating packed bed(RPB)uses centrifugal force to intensify mass transfer.Zigzag rotating bed(RZB)is a new type of HIGEE unit.The rotor of RZB consists of stationary discs and rotating...As a high gravity(HIGEE)unit,the rotating packed bed(RPB)uses centrifugal force to intensify mass transfer.Zigzag rotating bed(RZB)is a new type of HIGEE unit.The rotor of RZB consists of stationary discs and rotating discs,forming zigzag channels for liquid-gas flow and mass transfer.As in RPBs,some hydrodynamic behavior in RZB is interesting but no satisfactory explanation.In this study,the experiments were carried on in a RZB unit with a rotor of 600 mm in diameter using air-water system.The gas pressure drop and power consumption were measured with two types of rotating baffle for RZB rotors,one with perforations and another with shutter openings. The circumferential velocities of gas were measured with a five-hole Pitot probe.The pressure drop decreased rapidly when the liquid was introduced to the rotor,because the circumferential velocity of the liquid droplets was lower than that of the gas,reducing the circumferential velocity of gas and the centrifugal pressure drop.The power consumption decreased first when the gas entered the RZB rotor,because the gas with higher circumferential velocity facilitates the rotation of baffles.展开更多
Low pressure chemical vapor deposition(LPCVD) is one of the most important processes during semiconductor manufacturing.However,the spatial distribution of internal temperature and extremely few samples makes it hard ...Low pressure chemical vapor deposition(LPCVD) is one of the most important processes during semiconductor manufacturing.However,the spatial distribution of internal temperature and extremely few samples makes it hard to build a good-quality model of this batch process.Besides,due to the properties of this process,the reliability of the model must be taken into consideration when optimizing the MVs.In this work,an optimal design strategy based on the self-learning Gaussian process model(GPM) is proposed to control this kind of spatial batch process.The GPM is utilized as the internal model to predict the thicknesses of thin films on all spatial-distributed wafers using the limited data.Unlike the conventional model based design,the uncertainties of predictions provided by GPM are taken into consideration to guide the optimal design of manipulated variables so that the designing can be more prudent Besides,the GPM is also actively enhanced using as little data as possible based on the predictive uncertainties.The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is successfully demonstrated in an LPCVD process.展开更多
A time-frequency signal processing method for two-phase flow through a horizontal Venturi based on adaptive optimal-kernel (AOK) was presented in this paper.First,the collected dynamic differential pressure signal o...A time-frequency signal processing method for two-phase flow through a horizontal Venturi based on adaptive optimal-kernel (AOK) was presented in this paper.First,the collected dynamic differential pressure signal of gas-liquid two-phase flow was preprocessed,and then the AOK theory was used to analyze the dynamic differ-ential pressure signal.The mechanism of two-phase flow was discussed through the time-frequency spectrum.On the condition of steady water flow rate,with the increasing of gas flow rate,the flow pattern changes from bubbly flow to slug flow,then to plug flow,meanwhile,the energy distribution of signal fluctuations show significant change that energy transfer from 15-35 Hz band to 0-8 Hz band;moreover,when the flow pattern is slug flow,there are two wave peaks showed in the time-frequency spectrum.Finally,a number of characteristic variables were defined by using the time-frequency spectrum and the ridge of AOK.When the characteristic variables were visu-ally analyzed,the relationship between different combination of characteristic variables and flow patterns would be gotten.The results show that,this method can explain the law of flow in different flow patterns.And characteristic variables,defined by this method,can get a clear description of the flow information.This method provides a new way for the flow pattern identification,and the percentage of correct prediction is up to 91.11%.展开更多
A series of 2D direct numerical simulations were performed with an accurate level set method for single drop impacts.The adopted ACLS method was validated to be efficient with perfect mass conservation in both normal ...A series of 2D direct numerical simulations were performed with an accurate level set method for single drop impacts.The adopted ACLS method was validated to be efficient with perfect mass conservation in both normal and oblique impacts.A square-root correction for neck bases was modified in accuracy as well as scope of applications.In addition,process of jet formation and evolution was studied to reveal internal dynamics in drop impacts.It's found that pressure gradient and vortex are coexisting and completive reasons for jet topology while the inclined angle has a significant effect on them.Mechanisms of jet formation and evolution are different in the front and back necks.With the help of PDF distribution and correction calculation,a compromise in the competition is observed.This work lays a solid foundation for further studies of dynamics in gas-liquid flows.展开更多
Previous works have shown that the suction probe cannot be used to accurately measure the upward and downward particle fluxes independently. A new method using a single optical probe to measure the local solid flux is...Previous works have shown that the suction probe cannot be used to accurately measure the upward and downward particle fluxes independently. A new method using a single optical probe to measure the local solid flux is presented. The measurement of upward, downward and net solid fluxes was carried out in a cold model circulating fluidized bed (CFB) unit. The result shows that the profile of the net solid flux is in good agreement with the previous experimental data measured with a suction probe. The comparison between the average solid flux determined with the optical measuring system and the external solid flux was made, and the maximum deviationturned out to be 22%, with the average error being about 6.9%. These confirm that the optical fiber system can be successfully used to measure the upward, downward and net solid fluxes simultaneously by correctly processing the sampling signals obtained from the optical measuring system.展开更多
Zero net-liquid flow (ZNLF) is a special case of upward gas-liquid two-phase flow. It is a phenomenon observed as a gas-liquid mixture flows in a conduit but the net liquid flow rate is zero. Investigation on the liqu...Zero net-liquid flow (ZNLF) is a special case of upward gas-liquid two-phase flow. It is a phenomenon observed as a gas-liquid mixture flows in a conduit but the net liquid flow rate is zero. Investigation on the liquid holdup of ZNLF is conducted in a vertical ten-meter tube with diameter of 76 mm, both for Newtonian and nonNewtonian fluids. The gas phase is air. The Newtonian fluid is water and the non-Newtonian fluids are water-based guar gel solutions. The correlations developed for predicting liquid holdup on the basis of Lockhart-Martinelli parameter are not suitable to ZNLF. A constitutive correlation for the liquid holdup of vertical ZNLF was put forward by using the mass balance. It is found that the liquid holdup in ZNLF is dependent on both the gas flow rate and the flow distribution coefficient.展开更多
Accurate measurement of flow parameters is important in gas-solid two-phase flow,and such flow has to be dealt with in many processes involving bulk solids handling and transportation.The circular electrostatic sensor...Accurate measurement of flow parameters is important in gas-solid two-phase flow,and such flow has to be dealt with in many processes involving bulk solids handling and transportation.The circular electrostatic sensor is one of those used for gas-solid flow measurement.In this paper,the finite element method(FEM)is used to establish the mathematical model of the sensor,the spatial sensitivity characteristics of the sensors is analyzed,and the analytic model is improved by the nonlinear least square method and the iterative method.Finally,the correlation coefficients between the experimental results and the improved processing are compared and analyzed,and the mathematical expression of the model is improved.The feasibility and practicability of the improved model are verified.展开更多
To clarify the countercurrent flow in a PWR hot leg under reflux condensation, numerical simulations of countercurrent air-water flow for a 1/15th scale model of the PWR hot leg were conducted using the two-fluid mode...To clarify the countercurrent flow in a PWR hot leg under reflux condensation, numerical simulations of countercurrent air-water flow for a 1/15th scale model of the PWR hot leg were conducted using the two-fluid model implemented in CFD software. In this paper, the effect of expansion of the inclined pipe, which is the actual plant geometry, was evaluated. When increasing the air velocity, CCFL characteristics and the mechanism of flow pattern transition had significant differences between the case with and without expansion of the inclined pipe. CCFL characteristics were mitigated in the case with expansion. The effect of computational grid size was also discussed. When the supplied water velocity was small, the predicted flow pattern transition point agreed well with the measured data by increasing the number of cells. On the other hand, when the air velocity was decreasing, there were no significant differences in each case.展开更多
文摘In this paper we analyze the characteristics of a flow transducer based on polarized charge. The effects of the charged particles in pneumatic pipeline on the measurement pipe potential are discussed in detail and the equivalent circuits of the potential measurement are presented. On this bases, the relationships between mass flowrate and the electrical potential are obtained for different time constants of the measurement circuit. A satisfactory model is presented based on the characteristics of gas solid two phase flow. The linearity of the model is verified by the experiment results. The transducer, which is coaxially connected with the transport pipeline, does not disturb the flow state and has the features of ruggedness and durability, it is especially suitable for industry process control.
基金Supported by the National lqatural Science Foundation of China (Nos.50576084 and 60532020).
文摘A new method for the voidage measurement of gas-oil two-phase flow was proposed.The voidage measurement was implemented by the identification of flow pattern and a flow pattern specific voidage measure- ment model.The flow pattern identification was achieved by combining the fuzzy pattern recognition technique and the crude cross-sectional image reconstructed by the simple back projection algorithm.The genetic algorithm and the partial least square method were applied to develop the voidage measurement models.Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective.It can overcome the influence of flow pattern on the voidage measure- ment,and also has the advantages of simplicity and speediness.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50706006) and the Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province (20040513).
文摘The knowledge of flow regime is very important for quantifying the pressure drop, the stability and safety of two-phase flow systems. Based on image multi-feature fusion and support vector machine, a new method to identify flow regime in two-phase flow was presented. Firstly, gas-liquid two-phase flow images including bub- bly flow, plug flow, slug flow, stratified flow, wavy flow, annular flow and mist flow were captured by digital high speed video systems in the horizontal tube. The image moment invariants and gray level co-occurrence matrix texture features were extracted using image processing techniques. To improve the performance of a multiple classifier system, the rough sets theory was used for reducing the inessential factors. Furthermore, the support vector machine was trained by using these eigenvectors to reduce the dimension as flow regime samples, and the flow regime intelligent identification was realized. The test results showed that image features which were reduced with the rough sets theory could excellently reflect the difference between seven typical flow regimes, and successful training the support vector machine could quickly and accurately identify seven typical flow regimes of gas-liquid two-phase flow in the horizontal tube. Image multi-feature fusion method provided a new way to identify the gas-liquid two-phase flow, and achieved higher identification ability than that of single characteristic. The overall identification accuracy was 100%, and an estimate of the image processing time was 8 ms for online flow regime identification.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(Y406239)
文摘As a high gravity(HIGEE)unit,the rotating packed bed(RPB)uses centrifugal force to intensify mass transfer.Zigzag rotating bed(RZB)is a new type of HIGEE unit.The rotor of RZB consists of stationary discs and rotating discs,forming zigzag channels for liquid-gas flow and mass transfer.As in RPBs,some hydrodynamic behavior in RZB is interesting but no satisfactory explanation.In this study,the experiments were carried on in a RZB unit with a rotor of 600 mm in diameter using air-water system.The gas pressure drop and power consumption were measured with two types of rotating baffle for RZB rotors,one with perforations and another with shutter openings. The circumferential velocities of gas were measured with a five-hole Pitot probe.The pressure drop decreased rapidly when the liquid was introduced to the rotor,because the circumferential velocity of the liquid droplets was lower than that of the gas,reducing the circumferential velocity of gas and the centrifugal pressure drop.The power consumption decreased first when the gas entered the RZB rotor,because the gas with higher circumferential velocity facilitates the rotation of baffles.
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(2014AA041803)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61320106009)
文摘Low pressure chemical vapor deposition(LPCVD) is one of the most important processes during semiconductor manufacturing.However,the spatial distribution of internal temperature and extremely few samples makes it hard to build a good-quality model of this batch process.Besides,due to the properties of this process,the reliability of the model must be taken into consideration when optimizing the MVs.In this work,an optimal design strategy based on the self-learning Gaussian process model(GPM) is proposed to control this kind of spatial batch process.The GPM is utilized as the internal model to predict the thicknesses of thin films on all spatial-distributed wafers using the limited data.Unlike the conventional model based design,the uncertainties of predictions provided by GPM are taken into consideration to guide the optimal design of manipulated variables so that the designing can be more prudent Besides,the GPM is also actively enhanced using as little data as possible based on the predictive uncertainties.The effectiveness of the proposed strategy is successfully demonstrated in an LPCVD process.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(Y1100842) the Planning Projects of General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China(2006QK23)
文摘A time-frequency signal processing method for two-phase flow through a horizontal Venturi based on adaptive optimal-kernel (AOK) was presented in this paper.First,the collected dynamic differential pressure signal of gas-liquid two-phase flow was preprocessed,and then the AOK theory was used to analyze the dynamic differ-ential pressure signal.The mechanism of two-phase flow was discussed through the time-frequency spectrum.On the condition of steady water flow rate,with the increasing of gas flow rate,the flow pattern changes from bubbly flow to slug flow,then to plug flow,meanwhile,the energy distribution of signal fluctuations show significant change that energy transfer from 15-35 Hz band to 0-8 Hz band;moreover,when the flow pattern is slug flow,there are two wave peaks showed in the time-frequency spectrum.Finally,a number of characteristic variables were defined by using the time-frequency spectrum and the ridge of AOK.When the characteristic variables were visu-ally analyzed,the relationship between different combination of characteristic variables and flow patterns would be gotten.The results show that,this method can explain the law of flow in different flow patterns.And characteristic variables,defined by this method,can get a clear description of the flow information.This method provides a new way for the flow pattern identification,and the percentage of correct prediction is up to 91.11%.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91541202,51276163)
文摘A series of 2D direct numerical simulations were performed with an accurate level set method for single drop impacts.The adopted ACLS method was validated to be efficient with perfect mass conservation in both normal and oblique impacts.A square-root correction for neck bases was modified in accuracy as well as scope of applications.In addition,process of jet formation and evolution was studied to reveal internal dynamics in drop impacts.It's found that pressure gradient and vortex are coexisting and completive reasons for jet topology while the inclined angle has a significant effect on them.Mechanisms of jet formation and evolution are different in the front and back necks.With the help of PDF distribution and correction calculation,a compromise in the competition is observed.This work lays a solid foundation for further studies of dynamics in gas-liquid flows.
文摘Previous works have shown that the suction probe cannot be used to accurately measure the upward and downward particle fluxes independently. A new method using a single optical probe to measure the local solid flux is presented. The measurement of upward, downward and net solid fluxes was carried out in a cold model circulating fluidized bed (CFB) unit. The result shows that the profile of the net solid flux is in good agreement with the previous experimental data measured with a suction probe. The comparison between the average solid flux determined with the optical measuring system and the external solid flux was made, and the maximum deviationturned out to be 22%, with the average error being about 6.9%. These confirm that the optical fiber system can be successfully used to measure the upward, downward and net solid fluxes simultaneously by correctly processing the sampling signals obtained from the optical measuring system.
文摘Zero net-liquid flow (ZNLF) is a special case of upward gas-liquid two-phase flow. It is a phenomenon observed as a gas-liquid mixture flows in a conduit but the net liquid flow rate is zero. Investigation on the liquid holdup of ZNLF is conducted in a vertical ten-meter tube with diameter of 76 mm, both for Newtonian and nonNewtonian fluids. The gas phase is air. The Newtonian fluid is water and the non-Newtonian fluids are water-based guar gel solutions. The correlations developed for predicting liquid holdup on the basis of Lockhart-Martinelli parameter are not suitable to ZNLF. A constitutive correlation for the liquid holdup of vertical ZNLF was put forward by using the mass balance. It is found that the liquid holdup in ZNLF is dependent on both the gas flow rate and the flow distribution coefficient.
基金Science and Technology on Electronic Test and Measurement Laboratory(No.9140C12040515X)
文摘Accurate measurement of flow parameters is important in gas-solid two-phase flow,and such flow has to be dealt with in many processes involving bulk solids handling and transportation.The circular electrostatic sensor is one of those used for gas-solid flow measurement.In this paper,the finite element method(FEM)is used to establish the mathematical model of the sensor,the spatial sensitivity characteristics of the sensors is analyzed,and the analytic model is improved by the nonlinear least square method and the iterative method.Finally,the correlation coefficients between the experimental results and the improved processing are compared and analyzed,and the mathematical expression of the model is improved.The feasibility and practicability of the improved model are verified.
文摘To clarify the countercurrent flow in a PWR hot leg under reflux condensation, numerical simulations of countercurrent air-water flow for a 1/15th scale model of the PWR hot leg were conducted using the two-fluid model implemented in CFD software. In this paper, the effect of expansion of the inclined pipe, which is the actual plant geometry, was evaluated. When increasing the air velocity, CCFL characteristics and the mechanism of flow pattern transition had significant differences between the case with and without expansion of the inclined pipe. CCFL characteristics were mitigated in the case with expansion. The effect of computational grid size was also discussed. When the supplied water velocity was small, the predicted flow pattern transition point agreed well with the measured data by increasing the number of cells. On the other hand, when the air velocity was decreasing, there were no significant differences in each case.