Radiometric Method for the Research on Geomechanical Parameters of Rocks

Bonczyk, Michał; Wysocka, M.; Bukowska, M.; Michalik, B.; Prusek, S.; Wadas, Mariusz

doi:10.1007/s00024-016-1399-4

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“…The basic elements of an industrial radiometric density meter are a measuring head containing a gamma radiation source, a detector, and an electronics block, the main element of which is a pulse counter used to process the signal from the detector (Figure 2). In the radiometric meter, the radiation source is the 137 Cs isotope, and a scintillation counter is used as a gamma radiation detector [19][20][21]. The signal at the output of the radiation detector is a series of pulses s(t).…”

Section: Radiometric Density Metermentioning

confidence: 99%

Signal Processing from the Radiation Detector of the Radiometric Density Meter Using the Low-Pass Infinite Impulse Response Filter in the Measurement Path in the Coal Enrichment Process Control System

Joostberens,

Rybak,

Rybak

et al. 2024

Electronics

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One of the most common coal preparations is enrichment in a jig using a float regulation system. The latest solutions propose to compensate for significant measurement errors of the float by introducing a radiometric density meter operating on the principle of gamma radiation absorption into the bottom product discharge zone of the jig. The signal from the radiometric density meter detector is in the form of a sequence of pulses with a Poisson time distribution, which are counted by a counter, as a form of digital low-pass filter. The requirement to maintain accuracy at an appropriate level forces the measurement time to be extended, which worsens the dynamic properties. Changes in the density of the coal–water medium have an unsteady, cyclical course, resulting from the principle of operation of the jig. The research goal was to develop an algorithm for processing the signal from the radiation detector using an IIR filter in the measurement path in a way that ensures optimization of the dynamic properties of the radiometric density meter operating in the control system of the coal enrichment process in the jig. For this purpose, a low-pass IIR filter was introduced into the measurement path to process the signal from the pulse counter. The identified course of the medium density for one cycle (the first) served as a reference signal. A first-order IIR filter was proposed, with a constant parameter selected on the basis of the reference signal and a parameter depending on the time derivative of the identified density of the medium. The mean squared error MSE was adopted as an indicator for assessing the dynamic properties of the radiometric density meter. The results of simulation tests showed that introducing an IIR filter into the measurement path gives better results in terms of the adopted criterion than using a counter with a constant measurement time. The best results (MSE = 2.05 × 10−4) were obtained using an IIR filter with a parameter that is a linear function of the derivative of the medium density over time, determined for one air pulsation cycle and applied in four subsequent cycles. These results were obtained for an adaptive first-order filter with a variable parameter a from the designated range from 0.833 to 0.999, for a measurement time of 2 ms.

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Section: Radiometric Density Metermentioning

confidence: 99%