PTL NEWS DECEMBER 2008

 

 

 

                    

 

The new TFL R5000 Flow Analyser and ECT system

 

 

For the last 3 years, we have been collaborating with our associate company Tomoflow in developing our Electrical Capacitance technology for use in an industrial tomographic flow meter. One recent spin-off from this advanced development programme is a new very high speed, low-noise Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) system, which can be used for both Permittivity and Conductivity imaging of imperfect dielectric materials such as grain or other similar lossy insulators. It can also be used for analysing the flows of mixtures of solids, liquids and gasses.

 

Provisionally designated the Tomoflow R5000 Flow Analyser and ECT system, the new measurement system can operate with ECT sensors having up to 16 electrodes in a single measurement plane configuration (for optimal imaging resolution)  or with up to 8 electrodes in a twin-plane configuration for 2-phase flow measurement and analysis. The R5000 is fully software-configurable, allowing a wide range of excitation and detection protocols to be used, at capture speeds up to 5000 frames per second (although 500 fps is a more typical capture rate for most basic applications).

 

We anticipate that the new R5000 Flow Analyser and ECT system will be available from March 2009 onwards. We plan to make a number of standard ECT sensors available for use with the new instrument, together with a set of suggested standard experiments for use in teaching applications. For customers who need up to 12 electrodes in a twin-plane configuration, our established UMIST-based PTL300E ECT system will remain in production.

 

Outline details of the new Tomoflow R5000 system can be found here. We anticipate a high level of interest in our new ECT measurement system,  so if you are interested in becoming an early adopter of this innovative technology, please contact us by email (enquiries@tomography.com) so that we can email you more detailed information when it becomes available early next year.

 

Updated 9-12-2008

 

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