Monitoring mineral slurry flow using pulse-echo ultrasound

作者：Stener Jan F^*; Carlson Johan E; Sand Anders; Palsson Bertil I

来源：Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 2016, 50: 135-146.

DOI：10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2016.06.022

• Flow monitoring
• Mineral slurry
• Particle velocity
• Ultrasonic velocity profiling
• Suspension solids concentration
• Power spectral density

Ultrasound based flow measurement methods have a large potential for the mining industry and its processing plants. Ultrasound travel through dense suspensions and is not affected by the magnetic fields sometimes present in this type of equipment.
A cross-correlation based method is used for localized particle velocity measurements in one and two dimensions. Simultaneously, using the same data, information about local particle concentration is extracted from the power spectral density of the backscattered signal. Experiments are carried out both in simplified geometry and in full scale equipment in an iron ore pilot benefication plant.
In the simple geometry it is possible to assess the precision of the methods by comparing the measurements to theory and numerical simulations. The results from the pilot plant experiments show that these methods can be applied to real world processes.

• 出版日期2016-8