Investigation of Moisture in Coal Using Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography

Abstract:

A preliminary study about the development of Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) for determining moisture, calorie and the flow of coal mass real-time on the conveyor has been done. This study aims to examine the capability and sensitivity of ECVT as a capacitance measurement system to investigate the correlation between moisture in coal and its dielectric property. The ECVT system comprises of a 2-channel rectangular sensor, data acquisition system and a computer system to control the measurement, process data and display the data of normalized capacitance of coal as the result. The linear correlation between moisture in coal and data of coal relative capacitance is obtained and presented in this paper. The results have shown that ECVT has good capability and sensitivity as a system to monitor the dielectric property and behavior of coal which are affected by the moisture content

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 896)
• Pages: 701-705
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.896.701
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Iriwn Maulana*, Didied Haryono, Warsito P. Taruno, Mahfudz Al Huda, Marlin Baidillah, Rommy I. Sulaiman
• Keywords: 2-Channel Sensor, Capacitance Measurement, Coal Moisture, ECVT, Linear Correlation

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