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The fan-beam optical sensor is made up of many semiconductor lasers and detectors fixed around the wall alternately at a cross section of pneumatically conveying pipe. When the sensor works, a scanning light source emits a 50° lamellar fan-beam through the gas-solid two phase flow, and the projection data resulting extinction effect of solid particles are detected at the same time. With the projection data, the flow rate mass can be calculated, and then the flow image can be reconstructed. In this paper, the design of the sensor including spatial arrangement of the structural parts, basic principle and measurement sensitivity distribution are introduced. The mathematical measurement model of solid mass flow rate is presented together with the testing results.
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Yang, L., Ying-na, Z. & Hong-wei, Y. Design of fan beam optical sensor and its application in mass flow rate measurement of pneumatically conveyed solids. J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. A 6, 1430–1434 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2005.A1430
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2005.A1430