A Review of Research on Acoustic Detection of Heat Exchanger Tube

Lei  Shu; Xufeng  Zhu; Xiwei  Huang; ZhangBing  Zhou; Yu  Zhang; Xiaolei  Wang

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A Review of Research on Acoustic Detection of Heat Exchanger Tube

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@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.17-9-2015.150287,
    author={Lei  Shu and Xufeng  Zhu and Xiwei  Huang and ZhangBing  Zhou and Yu  Zhang and Xiaolei  Wang},
    title={A Review of Research on Acoustic Detection of Heat Exchanger Tube},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems},
    volume={2},
    number={5},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={INIS},
    year={2015},
    month={9},
    keywords={Heat exchanger, Acoustic detection, Propagation characteristics, Detection methods, Positioning methods},
    doi={10.4108/eai.17-9-2015.150287}
}

Lei Shu
Xufeng Zhu
Xiwei Huang
ZhangBing Zhou
Yu Zhang
Xiaolei Wang
Year: 2015
A Review of Research on Acoustic Detection of Heat Exchanger Tube
INIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.17-9-2015.150287

Lei Shu¹^,*, Xufeng Zhu², Xiwei Huang³, ZhangBing Zhou⁴, Yu Zhang⁵, Xiaolei Wang⁶

1: Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
2: Avery Dennison, China
3: HeCheng primary school(HuaDu, GuangZhou), China
4: China University of Geosciences(Beijing), China
5: School of Engineering University of Lincoln, LN67TS, U.K.
6: China University of Geosciences(Beijing), China.

*Contact email: lei-shu@outlook.com

Abstract

Leakage in heat exchanger tubes can result in unreliable products and dangerous situations, which could cause great economic losses. Along with fast development of modern acoustic detection technology, using acoustic signals to detect leakage in heat exchange tube has been gradually accepted and considered with great potential by both industrial and research societies. In order to further advance the development of acoustic signal detection technology and investigate better methods for leakage detection in heat exchange tube, in this paper, rstly, we conduct a short overview of the theory of acoustic signal detection on heat exchanger tube, which had already been continuously developed for a few decades by researchers worldwide. Thereafter, we further expound the advantages and limitations of acoustic signal detection technology on heat exchanger tube in four aspects: 1) principles of acoustic signal detection, 2) characteristics of sound wave propagation in heat exchanger tube, 3) methods of leakage detection, and 4) leakage localization in heat exchanger tube.

Keywords: Heat exchanger, Acoustic detection, Propagation characteristics, Detection methods, Positioning methods

Received: 2015-07-29
Accepted: 2015-09-03
Published: 2015-09-17
Publisher: EAI

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.17-9-2015.150287

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