A new flow velocity measurement method based on the ring electrostatic sensor

Gas-solid two phase flow widely lies in industry process, while its parameters measurement (flow velocity, the mass flowrate, particle sizes, et al.) is very difficult. This paper mainly studies the solid phase flow velocity measurement questions of gas-solid two phase flow with the ring electrostatic sensor. During the flow velocity measurement study, a new mathematical model of the electrostatic sensor is established, and by simulating the obtained model the spatial filter characteristics of the electrostatic sensor are obtained. By the spatial filter characteristics analysis of the ring electrostatic sensor, a new flow velocity measurement method is obtained in this paper. At last, some experiments are accomplished in the laboratory with line sand. The new method of measuring flow velocity is effective in these experiments. The flow velocity obtained with the new measuring method is calibrated with the cross-correlation velocity. When the line sand velocity is less than 7m/s, the repeatability error of the measured velocity is less than ± 10%.