Ultrasonic Tomography Imaging for Liquid-Gas Flow Measurement

• Main Authors: Muhammad Jaysuman PUSPPANATHAN, Nor Muzakkir NOR AYOB, Fazlul Rahman YUNUS, Khairul Hamimah ABAS, Herlina Abdul RAHIM, Leo Pei LING, Ruzairi Abdul RAHIM, Fatin Aliah PHANG, Mohd Hafiz FAZALUL RAHIMAN, Zulkarnay ZAKARIA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IFSA Publishing, S.L. 2013-01-01
• Series: Sensors & Transducers
• Subjects: Tomography; Ultrasonic; Two phase flow; Flow measurement; Transceiver
• Online Access: http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/january_2013/P_1109.pdf
• ISSN: 2306-8515; 1726-5479

This research was carried out to measure two-phase liquid – gas flow regime by using a dual functionality ultrasonic transducer. Comparing to the common separated transmitter–receiver ultrasonic pairs transducer, the dual functionality ultrasonic transceiver is capable to produce the same measurable results hence further improvises and contributes to the hardware design improvement and system accuracy. Due to the disadvantages and the limitations of the separated ultrasonic transmitter–receiver pair, this paper presents a non-invasive ultrasonic tomography system using ultrasonic transceivers as an alternative approach. Implementation of ultrasonic transceivers, electronic measurement circuits, data acquisition system and suitable image reconstruction algorithms, the measurement of a liquid/gas flow was realized.