Acoustic Monitor for Liquid-Solid Slurries Measurements at Low Weight Fractions

Tavlarides, L. L. ; Sangani, A. ; Shcherbakov, A. ; Lee, J. S. ; Dievendorf, E.

Syracuse University

关键词: Testing;    12 Management Of Radioactive Wastes, And Non-Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Facilities;    Acoustics;    Radioactive Wastes;    Ornl;   

DOI  :  10.2172/834687
RP-ID  :  EMSP-73896-2002
RP-ID  :  FG07-96ER14729
RP-ID  :  834687

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The principal objective of the project is to develop an acoustic probe for determining the weight fraction of particles in a flowing suspension. The suspension can be solid-liquid (S-L) or solid-gas-liquid (S-G-L). The work will include testing the theory of acoustic wave propagation in suspensions and demonstrating the application of the probe by installing it on a flow loop through which a suspension is flowing and determining the particle weight fraction. The signal from the probe must be processed such that the noise arising from the presence of gas bubbles is removed to yield an accurate estimate of the particle weight fraction. Particular attention will be given to testing suspensions with low particle weight fractions since slurries to be transported in nuclear waste processing will have low particle weight fractions. Originally, the probe was to be developed and tested at Syracuse University (SU) then installed and tested at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) for surrogate slurries from the Hanford Nuclear site. However, after discussions between SU and ORNL in June 2002 it was agreed that all tests would be conducted at SU.