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Non‐intrusive characterization of particle size changes in fluidized beds using recurrence plots
Author(s) -
Savari Chiya,
SotudehGharebagh Rahmat,
Zarghami Reza,
Mostoufi Navid
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.15265
Subject(s) - recurrence quantification analysis , recurrence plot , fluidized bed , particle size , particle (ecology) , diagonal , mathematics , plot (graphics) , mechanics , statistics , materials science , physics , geometry , engineering , geology , thermodynamics , nonlinear system , chemical engineering , quantum mechanics , oceanography
An on‐line method is developed for monitoring of mean particle size in fluidized beds using pressure fluctuations (PFs) and acoustic emissions (AE) signal by recurrence plot (RP) and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). PFs and AE signals of a lab‐scale fluidized bed were measured simultaneously at various superficial gas velocities and mean particle sizes. Although the AE signals are often very complicated due to many different acoustic sources in the bed, applying RP analyses showed that small changes in mean particle size can be detected by visual comparison of AE‐RP structures, while this cannot be distinguished by graphical RP analysis of PFs. Moreover, the hydrodynamics of the bed was inspected through RQA analysis of both signals. For this purpose, recurrence rate, determinism, laminarity, average length of diagonal and vertical lines were extracted from RPs showing the effect of an increase in the mean particle size. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J , 62: 3547–3561, 2016