Sensing system for detection and control of deposition on pendant tubes in recovery and power boilers
A system for detection and control of deposition on pendant tubes in recovery and power boilers includes one or more deposit monitoring sensors operating in infrared regions and about 4 or 8.7 microns and directly producing images of the interior of the boiler. An image pre-processing circuit (95) in which a 2-D image formed by the video data input is captured, and includes a low pass filter for performing noise filtering of said video input. An image segmentation module (105) for separating the image of the recovery boiler interior into background, pendant tubes, and deposition. An image-understanding unit (115) matches derived regions to a 3-D model of said boiler. It derives a 3-D structure the deposition on pendant tubes in the boiler and provides the information about deposits to the plant distributed control system (130) for more efficient operation of the plant pendant tube cleaning and operating systems.
- Research Organization:
- Combustion Specialists, Inc., Maple Valley, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC36-99GO10375
- Assignee:
- Combustion Specialists, Inc. (Maple Valley, WA)
- Patent Number(s):
- 6,909,816
- Application Number:
- 10/168,277
- OSTI ID:
- 1175405
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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