Based on electrical capacitance tomography technique

a novel method for flow pattern display and voidage measurement of two-phase flow was proposed. A 12-electrode ECT measurement system was developed. The weighted back projection algorithm was selected as the image reconstruction algorithm to satisfy the requirement of flow pattern display. Combining the principle of Tikhnov regularization theory with the ART(Algebraic Reconstruction Technique) algorithm

a new quantitative image reconstruction algorithm was developed to implement voidage measurement of two-phase flow. Experimental results of gas-liqiud two-phase flow and gas-solid fluidized bed showed that the developed measurement system was successful. The speed of image reconstruction of flow pattern display was greater than 20 frames per second. The maximum error of voidage measurement is less than 5% and the time of voidage measurement is less than 2 seconds.