US20060220281A1 - Online measurement of molten phases - Google Patents

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US20060220281A1
US20060220281A1 US10/520,953 US52095305A US2006220281A1 US 20060220281 A1 US20060220281 A1 US 20060220281A1 US 52095305 A US52095305 A US 52095305A US 2006220281 A1 US2006220281 A1 US 2006220281A1
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  • the present invention is directed to identifying and quantifying information from molten phases, including slags, fluxes, metal, and matte. Using a method based upon principal components analysis of image data taken from the surface of molten phases.
  • Multivariate image processing provides a reliable method for extracting information from image data. This method has been successfully applied for image processing in several applications, such as satellite image data and the medical area. However, there is no prior application of this method for online measurements of molten phases.
  • An object of this invention is to delineate and quantify online information about molten phases within a reasonable computation time for detecting the relative surface areas of molten phases, determining whether the phases are fully molten, and predicting the temperature of the phases. Since the computation time is significantly fast, the method can be used as an online measurement device and integrated into a control system.
  • a method of characterizing molten phases using principal components analysis of image data taken from the surface of molten phases involves (a) developing a standard and (b) using the standard to identify and quantify an online image data.
  • the procedure developed consists of the following steps: (i) taking a digital image of the surface of molten phases, (ii) performing principal component analysis of the image, and (iii) judging the standard values of the principal components, based on the knowledge of the molten phases properties, which will be used to determine the properties of online images.
  • the following steps are carried out: (a) taking a digital image of the surface of molten phases, (b) performing principal component analysis on the image, (c) comparing this analysis with standard values of the principal components to determine the properties of the images, and (d) quantifying the considered properties of the image.
  • FIG. 1 depicts a schematic diagram of the online measurement of molten phases.
  • the system consists of three main parts, i.e. molten phases being measured, a digital camera for taking image data, and a computer for processing the image data;
  • FIG. 2 shows an example of an RGB image taken from molten phases
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematics diagram of the principal component analysis procedure
  • FIG. 4 depicts an example of the first two principal components plot (t 1 versus t 2 ) from the image in FIG. 2 ;
  • FIG. 5 is a plot correlating of predicted bare metal area, presented together with inert gas flowrate injected from the bottom of vessel, as a function of gas injection time;
  • FIG. 6 is a plot correlating the temperature of the bath and the average second principal component, t 2 , for slag properties.
  • FIG. 1 A schematic depiction of an online measurement system of molten phases is generally indicated by reference numeral 20 in FIG. 1 . As shown in the figure, this system 20 is applied to measuring molten phases in a vessel 22 and includes a digital camera 24 for taking image data, and a computer 26 for processing the image data.
  • the very first step for measuring the properties of molten phases is capturing image data of the slag surface using the digital camera 24 in RGB (Red-Green-Blue) format.
  • RGB Red-Green-Blue
  • the RGB format is a common way to represent high-resolution colour images, which each pixel is specified by three values—one each for the red, green, and blue (RGB) components of the pixel's colour.
  • RGB red, green, and blue
  • Such an image may be schematically represented as a stack of three congruent n ⁇ m pixel images.
  • the image can be viewed as a matrix, I m , with dimension n ⁇ m ⁇ 3, as shown in FIG. 3 .
  • I m matrix
  • FIG. 2 Such an image taken from the surface of a steel making ladle is visually represented in FIG. 2 .
  • Digital image data are transmitted into the process computer 26 to determine the properties of the molten phases based on the information captured by the image data.
  • PCA principal component analysis
  • Multivariate statistical methods e.g. principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS), have been successfully used for multivariate image analysis [Esbensen et al., 1989; Geladi et al., 1989; Gralin et al., 1989; Bharati and MacGegor, 1998].
  • PCA principal component analysis
  • PLS partial least squares
  • a set of highly dimensioned and highly correlated data can be projected into a set of un-correlated data with a reduction in dimensionality.
  • the PCA approach is used to evaluate the image of molten phases.
  • the three-way matrix I m(m ⁇ n ⁇ 3) of FIG. 3 is unfolded into an extended two-way matrix X ((n.m) ⁇ 3) , as illustrated in FIG. 3 .
  • the unfolded image matrix, X is decomposed by performing principal component analysis [Jackson, 1991].
  • the score vectors, t i are linear combinations of the variables (columns) in the data matrix X that explain the greatest variation in the multivariate data. These vectors have a property of orthogonality with respect to each other.
  • the combination of the first two score vectors (t 1 and t 2 ) would be almost identical with these pixels [Bharati and MacGregor, 1998], as shown mathematically in equation (3). Therefore, the combination of these principal components can be used to extract information from (or to discriminate materials in) the considered image.
  • the average of the pixel intensities at each wavelength is represented by t 1
  • the contrast or difference among the pixel intensities at various wavelengths is represented by t 2 [Bharati and MacGregor, 1998].
  • the average value of t 1 or t 2 may be used to characterize the property of an image, such as to determine the temperature.
  • the cumulative of total variance of the first two principal components is 97.23% (84.00% and 13.23%, respectively). Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the majority of information in the considered imaged is retained in the first two principal components; the combination of these principal components can be used to extract information from (or to discriminate materials in) the image and then, only the first two principal components are used in the subsequent analyses.
  • FIG. 4 A scatter plot of the first two score vectors (t 1 versus t 2 ) is presented in FIG. 4 .
  • the figure has 3110400 score combinations plotted, one for each of the 2160 ⁇ 1440 pixel locations in the original image. It is interesting to note that there were several overlaps of points in the figure due to the large number of pixels to be plotted into the graph and similar features in the original image yielded similar score vector combination.
  • the information in the original image that is explained by the combination values of t 1 and t 2 can be identified.
  • the results from this process can be used to delineate the pixel class.
  • the combination values of t 1 and t 2 and combined with information representing an area by one pixel, the area of an object under consideration in the image can be determined.
  • the results from this process can be used to delineate the pixel class that is given in Table 2.
  • FIG. 5 shows an example of predicted bare metal area, presented together with inert gas flowrate as a function of gas injection time. As clearly shown in the figure, the area of bare metal is a function of inert gas flowrate.
  • the method according to the invention can be used to delineate the surface properties, such as disruption of slag or bare metal and partial solidification of slags and to quantify the surface attributes in term of its area.
  • the second principal component, t 2 represents the contrast or difference among the pixel intensities at various wavelengths [Bharati and MacGregor, 1998], the average value of the second principal component is used to quantify the temperature of the bath.
  • the relationship between temperature and intensity will also be a function of the reflecting properties of the material, which in part is a function of ladle chemistry.
  • FIG. 6 shows a correlation between temperature of the bath and the average second principal component, t 2 , for various slag grades. As shown in FIG. 6 , there is a good indication that the temperature of the bath can be represented by the average value of the second principal component, t 2 . Hence, it can be concluded that the temperature of molten phases, including slags, fluxes, metal, and matte can be determined using the average value of t 2 .
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