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A Review of Recent Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) Applications for Wet Particulate Processing
Author(s) -
Stanley Steven J.,
Bolton Gary T.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
particle and particle systems characterization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1521-4117
pISSN - 0934-0866
DOI - 10.1002/ppsc.200701126
Subject(s) - particulates , process engineering , process (computing) , tomography , environmental science , measure (data warehouse) , electrical resistance and conductance , materials science , computer science , mechanical engineering , engineering , composite material , data mining , physics , ecology , optics , biology , operating system
Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) provides the capability to measure the conductivity distribution within a given process plant delivering time evolving multi‐dimensional information which often enhances fundamental process understanding whilst improving the design and operation of the process equipment. This paper reviews previous work undertaken using ERT for applications associated to wet particulate processing. The review is split into three sections including multi‐phase flow, solid‐liquid suspensions and reactive particulate processing. Typical results from a number of examples from both, research and industrial environments are presented.