TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– Rectangular fluidised beds are commonly used in industry, e.g. circulating fluidised bed (CFB) boilers. Apparently, no one has tried to imagine rectangular fluidised beds by electrical capacitance tomography (ECT). The purpose of this paper is to design a rectangular ECT sensor to understand the behaviour of a rectangular CFB riser.Design/methodology/approach– A rectangular sensor with eight electrodes is adopted to obtain the capacitance data. The sensitivity map is simulated to calculate the grey level of pixels for visualisation using the linear back‐projection algorithm.Findings– Experiments showed that the position of the objects in the riser can be obviously indicated and the central region of the object(s) has significantly higher grey level than other regions in the images using the rectangular ECT sensor.Research limitations/implications– It has a limitation in providing a higher resolution image.Practical implications– The results obtained by the rectangular ECT sensor show that it is promising to study the characteristics of flow non‐uniformity in the fast fluidisation regime of CFB.Originality/value– Without using square and circular ECT sensors, this is the first time a rectangular ECT sensor has been developed to study the unique problems of the characteristics of flow non‐uniformity in a rectangular CFB riser.
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
SN  - 0260-2288
DO  - 10.1108/02602281111169721
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/02602281111169721
AU  - Wang Wei
AU  - Yang Hairui
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Imaging a rectangular fluidised bed by electrical capacitance tomography: preliminary results
T2  - Sensor Review
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 315
EP  - 320
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -