FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE SENSOR GUARD

Authors

  • Jaysuman Pusppanathan Process Tomography and Instrumentation Engineering Research Group (PROTOM-i), Infocomm Research Alliance
  • Ruzairi Abdul Rahim Process Tomography and Instrumentation Engineering Research Group (PROTOM-i), Infocomm Research Alliance
  • Fatin Aliah Phang Centre of Engineering Education (CEE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
  • Fazlul Rahman Mohd Yunus Process Tomography and Instrumentation Engineering Research Group (PROTOM-i), Infocomm Research Alliance
  • Nor Muzakkir Nor Ayob Process Tomography and Instrumentation Engineering Research Group (PROTOM-i), Infocomm Research Alliance
  • Muhammad Saiful Badri Mansor Process Tomography and Instrumentation Engineering Research Group (PROTOM-i), Infocomm Research Alliance
  • Khairul Hamimah Abas Process Tomography and Instrumentation Engineering Research Group (PROTOM-i), Infocomm Research Alliance
  • Shafishuhaza Sahlan Process Tomography and Instrumentation Engineering Research Group (PROTOM-i), Infocomm Research Alliance
  • Johana Mohamad Elmy Department of Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6792

Keywords:

Tomography, electrical capacitance, comsol, finite element analysis, sensor guard

Abstract

Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is widely used for multiphase flow measuring and monitoring purposes. In this paper, a customized sensor electrode is introduced for ECT system. This sensor has an embedded guard using flexible FR4 copper plate which makes it advantage over the conventional type of design in terms of smaller in size, easy to attach on pipe circumference and has lower noise. To investigate the behaviour of the sensor guard, a Finite Element Method (FEM) using COMSOL Multiphysics software comes necessary. An emulated experiment is carried out to solve the sophisticated numerical studies to model the customized ECT sensor and its embedded noise guards.

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Published

2015-12-16

Issue

Vol. 77 No. 28: Man-Machine Systems Vol. 2

Section

Science and Engineering

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FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE SENSOR GUARD. (2015). Jurnal Teknologi, 77(28). https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6792