Acoustic emission (AE) as a technology of non-destructive detection for measuring the gas-liquid two-phase flow is superior to traditional method in non-invasiveness
no destruction of test pipe and flow field distribution
strong signal
and high sensitivity. The experiment was operated on a multiphase flow experimental device in Hebei University. Experiments based on the data processing method collected the features of gas-liquid two-phase flow in vertical pipe. The acoustic emission technology could reflect the dynamic characteristics of the typical flow patterns: bubbly flow
slug flow
annular flow
and the transition state of emulsified foam had some obviously differences in the time domain and frequency domain signals. There was a big difference between the values of Shannon entropy of wavelet energy and wavelet packet decomposition. The state of two-phase flow in vertical pipe was verified
and four typical flow patterns were accurately identified with pattern recognition. The acoustic emission technology is likely to be a new method for detection of gas-liquid two-phase flow.