PERFORMANCE MONITORING OF INDIVIDUAL HYDROCYCLONES USING SONAR-BASED SLURRY FLOW MEASUREMENT

摘要

Monitoring apparatus and system configured to respond to signals containing information about sound propagating through a slurry flowing in part, including overflow pipes, of cyclones operating in parallel on a battery, and determine the performance of individual cyclones. The signal process may form part of a non-invasive acoustic-based passive monitoring system, comprising cyclones and sensors, where the cyclones are configured in parallel to form a cyclone battery in order to process a slurry, each cyclone having an overflow pipe for providing some portion of the slurry flowing in the cyclone battery, where each sensor is configured to mount on a respective overflow pipe of a respective cyclone, to respond to sound propagating through the slurry flowing in the respective overflow pipe of the respective cyclone, and to provide a respective signal containing information about the sound propagating through the slurry flowing in the respective overflow pipe of the respective cyclone.