Industrial Tomography Platform for Diagnostics and Control of the Crystallization Process

Abstract

Purpose:The aim of the article is an industrial system platform for diagnostics and control of the crystallization process with the use of tomographic technologies. Design/Methodology/Approach: Various methods are used to study crystallization processes. Here, the tomographic method has been applied. Findings: Tomography of industrial processes is a harmless, non-invasive imaging technique used in various industrial in-process technologies. It plays an important role in continuous data measurement for better understanding and monitoring of industrial processes, providing a fast and dynamic response that facilitates real-time process control, fault detection and system malfunctions. Practical Implications: Sensor networks with their feedback loops are fundamental elements of production control. A critical difference in the mass production of chemicals, metals, building materials, food and other commodities is that common process sensors provide only local measurements, e.g. temperature, pressure, fill level, flow rate or species concentration. However, in most production systems such local measurements are not representative of the entire process, so spatial solutions are required. Here the future belongs to distributed and image sensors. Originality/Value: The concept of a system based on industrial tomography represents a solution currently unavailable on the world market, in its assumptions and effects it has a legitimate character of innovation on a global scale. At the same time, it means the creation of a new, fundamentally different from those available on the market, universal product in the technological sphere. It is an innovative, efficient tool for diagnostics and process control.

A Review on the Commonly Used Methods for Analysis of Physical Properties of Food Materials

“…The working principle lie in the measurement of the velocity profile, which is specific to a cross-section of pipe and thereby determines the drop in pressure for a specific length. Unlike regular tube viscometry, whose theory is based on volumetric formulas for measuring viscosity data points, tomographic viscometry involves shear rate data points from the viscosity profile [47,48]. The non-invasive and non-destructive manner of operation, as well as the in-line measurement of rheological parameters (e.g., slip velocity, yield stress, and shear viscosity) are the advantageous features of the process.…”