MONITORING OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESS USING INTELLIGENT TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM

The objective of this project is to come up with a monitoring system in a pipeline or
vessel of an industrial process without intrusion of the pipeline/vessel by sensor
equipment. This is done by taking a set of measurements using sensors that are
distributed around the periphery of the vessel/pipeline. The information obtained is
then used to reconstruct the cross sectional image inside the vessel/pipeline. In an
industrial process, numerous data can be collected from materials ( eg gas, liquid or
solids) inside the pipeline/vessel such as flow regime, solids fraction profile,
volumetric flow rate etc. Traditional monitoring systems required the sensing
elements to be placed inside the vessel/pipeline thus making it intrusive. This
intrusion will cause disturbance to the flow thus creating measurement errors. This
project will utilize Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) as its sensing method.
The tomography system itself is divided into two parts namely data acquisition and
data processing.