WO1993000577A1 - A system for measuring the transfer time of a sound-wave - Google Patents

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WO1993000577A1
WO1993000577A1 PCT/EP1992/001244 EP9201244W WO9300577A1 WO 1993000577 A1 WO1993000577 A1 WO 1993000577A1 EP 9201244 W EP9201244 W EP 9201244W WO 9300577 A1 WO9300577 A1 WO 9300577A1
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  • the present invention concerns a system for measuring the transfer time of a sound-wave, in particular for continuously measuring the transfer time of a sound-wave through a gas which is in a state of turbulence at a high temperature, and in such cases as involve a corrosive environment, with the ultimate goal of continuously measuring the temperature.
  • the invented system is also suited to measuring other associated parameters of the said transfer time within a body, such as its relative velocity or distance from a determined reference point.
  • the state of the art includes the use of conventional pyrometers such as thermocouples and thermoresistors but also more advanced systems which utilise the existing relation between the velocity of sound propagation through a gas and the temperature of this gas: an emitter is stimulated by a suitable electric signal and generates an acoustic vibration in the gas, while a microphone suitably placed from the emitter receives the said vibrations which are then transformed into electrical signals.
  • the transmitted signals and received signals are compared by appropriate algorithms to provide the so called “time of flight", that is the time which the signal emitted by the emitter takes to arrive at the microphone. From this time of flight one is able to ascertain the average temperature of the gas passed through by the acoustic vibration.
  • the more advanced of the systems are of two different types: those which use a commercial type "spark-gap" device to generate the sound with a single pulse, at high voltage and high current, and those which use a siren, such as those used at sports stadiums to generate the sound.
  • a packet of waves without a well defined frequency or phase is emitted, and one attempts to correlate, the time of arrival of the envelope of received signals with the instant of emission of the electrical pulse excited by the "spark-gap”
  • a wave train of variable frequency is emitted, but with intrinsic incoherence of phase, and a real and proper "cross correlation" between the wave shape of the emitted signal and the wave shape of the received signal is performed.
  • the disadvantages of conventional pyrometers are found in applications where one wants to measure an average temperature, in the necessity of using many of them and in subsequently taking the average, and in the difficulty of their use in hot and very corrosive environments.
  • the disadvantages of pyrometers of an acoustic type for the measurement of the "time of flight” lie principally in the uncertainty of an exact determination of the "time of flight” at the very moment one is measuring the temperature of a gas in the presence of raised noise levels produced by the turbulence of the gas, by a burner, by structural vibrations and the like (in the case of the "spark-gap" the uncertainty derives from the fact that the emitted signal is a non-repeatable signal
  • the present invention solves the problem of providing a precise measurement of the temperature of a gas under conditions of high temperature and in the presence of high noise levels.
  • the invented system still uses the aforementioned relationship between the "time of flight" and temperature, and as featured in the claims, includes a sound emitter sensitive to a single or to a group of frequencies, is coherent in phase and is associated with (or also functions as) a self- correlating receiver de-coder.
  • This allows the relationship between the emitted sound and the background noise to be optimised, since all the energy of the emitted sound is concentrated in a very narrow band of appropriate frequencies; the receiver transforms the received sound into electric signals which are sent through a very highly stable narrow band-pass filter system. Then the filter system carries out action of strong correlation to eliminate any possible noise placed on the incoming sound-wave.
  • the system of filters can be made up, alternatively or in combination, of:
  • the signal which leaves the system of filters associated with the aforementioned emitter and receiver, represented on an amplitude-time diagram has the particular shape of a "fish" like the Hamming window know in the scientific literature. It has been found that the relative maximums making up the envelope of the fish are, from a temporal point of view, very highly correlated with the instant of arrival of the first wave of the received signal. Thus another characteristic of the invention is that having found such correlation it is used to ascertain with certainty the said instant of arrival, and so the "time of flight".
  • An electric circuit breaker active on the incoming signal is driven by an iterating algorithm always to allow the first n waves of the received signal to pass, n being an integer which the user of the system chooses as a function of the conditions of measurements, to avoid processing any signals from echoes and so enabling the system to measure a vast range of temperature without needing to set a trial temperature.
  • the main advantage of the invention lies in the fact that one can determine with great accuracy the "time of flight" of a sound-wave and, so, the temperature of a hot gas in a turbulent state in the presence of high background noise and in the presence of the other parameters mentioned in the first paragraph of this description.
  • Another advantage of this invention is that the time resolution of the system is independent from the frequency used.
  • Figure 1 is a diagrammatic representation of one way of implementing the system.
  • Figure 2 is a block diagram of the electronic components of the system.
  • Figure 3 is a diagrammatic representation of a second way of implementing the system.
  • FIG 1 shows that in two opposite windows in the walls P of a boiler C are two facing and identical horns T1, T2 (the horns are to be understood as siren-speakers (produced by the company R.C.F.-Industrie Elettroacustiche a S. Maurizio ; Reggio Emilia - model D 140 )).
  • the horns T1 and T2 have speakers C1, C2 aligned along the I-I axis which crosses the heater and the flow of gas from the combustion FL.
  • the horn T2 emits a sinusoidal wave train of 2000 Hz which is received by horn Tl and is then transformed into an electrical signal which is sent to the amplifier A1.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the electronic system which processes and uses the received signal.
  • the amplifier Al amplifies the received signal from horn T1 with a gain (G) set by a microprocessor MP and sends it to the circuit "killer" K, always controlled by a microprocessor MP.
  • G gain
  • the circuit K closes 1 ms before the arrival of the signal and opens after 6 ms, thanks to an iterating calculation accomplished by the microprocessor.
  • the signal so cut enters the band-pass filter Fl through which only the fundamental harmonic can pass and leaves in the already described fish shaped amplitude-time diagram.
  • the signal is converted from an analog to a digital form by the ADC acquisition circuit and is sent to a microprocessor MP for processing.
  • the microprocessor MP processes the data, finds the m-relative maximum, for instance the relative maximum of the aforementioned "fish" diagram and determines "time of flight", also as a function of the moment in which the signal is emitted and generated itself by means of horn T2, and sends it to the display D. Furthermore it proceeds with the iterating cycle and sets the time of closure for the circuit K.
  • the microprocessor MP shall always find the same maximum.
  • T kp T max , p-1 - KS
  • - KS is an appropriate constant that depends on a factor of quality (Q) of the filters, on the number of poles of the filters and on the number n of waves of the received signal which one wants to enter the band-pass filter.
  • T kp T k , p-2 + ⁇ (T k , p-1 - T k , p-2 ) - KS where :
  • Figure 3 shows how the invented system can be alternatively implemented with an emitter unit which also functions as a receiver, so also obtaining a notable simplification of the apparatus.
  • a unit could be for example a horn E-R made up of suitable transducers associated with an appropriate speaker, which an appropriate speaker functions both as an emitter and a receiver, mounted on a wall P of a heater C.
  • a signal pick-up device is installed, that is able to pick up the signal transmitted from the horn E-R and to send it back to the latter with a phase displacement of fixed time.
  • the pick-up device can simply be an acoustically reflective surface.
  • horn E-R will be associated with the electronic system A1, already illustrated with reference to Fig. 2. It is also obvious that two distinct horns could be installed adjacent, on the same wall of the heater to perform, respectively, the function of emitter and receiver, a pick-up device again to be installed on the opposite wall.

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Abstract

A system to measure the transfer time or 'time of flight' of a sound-wave in a gas by using the relation between the gas temperature and the velocity of said wave in the gas comprising an emitter (T2) adapted to generate a coherent in phase sound substantially having a single or a group of frequencies; a decoder and self-correlating receiver (T1) which is associated with said emitter and sends the sound to a filter system (F1) and to an assembly controlled by a microprocessor (MP) which processes the signal coming out of the filter system in a shape similar to the Hamming window in order to find out the maximum of the relative maximums and obtain from the latter the 'time of flight'.

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A system for measuring the transfer time of a sound-wave
The present invention concerns a system for measuring the transfer time of a sound-wave, in particular for continuously measuring the transfer time of a sound-wave through a gas which is in a state of turbulence at a high temperature, and in such cases as involve a corrosive environment, with the ultimate goal of continuously measuring the temperature. The invented system is also suited to measuring other associated parameters of the said transfer time within a body, such as its relative velocity or distance from a determined reference point.
For the measurement of the temperature of a gas, the state of the art includes the use of conventional pyrometers such as thermocouples and thermoresistors but also more advanced systems which utilise the existing relation between the velocity of sound propagation through a gas and the temperature of this gas: an emitter is stimulated by a suitable electric signal and generates an acoustic vibration in the gas, while a microphone suitably placed from the emitter receives the said vibrations which are then transformed into electrical signals.
The transmitted signals and received signals are compared by appropriate algorithms to provide the so called "time of flight", that is the time which the signal emitted by the emitter takes to arrive at the microphone. From this time of flight one is able to ascertain the average temperature of the gas passed through by the acoustic vibration.
The more advanced of the systems are of two different types: those which use a commercial type "spark-gap" device to generate the sound with a single pulse, at high voltage and high current, and those which use a siren, such as those used at sports stadiums to generate the sound. With the first type of system a packet of waves without a well defined frequency or phase is emitted, and one attempts to correlate, the time of arrival of the envelope of received signals with the instant of emission of the electrical pulse excited by the "spark-gap", while with the second type of system a wave train of variable frequency is emitted, but with intrinsic incoherence of phase, and a real and proper "cross correlation" between the wave shape of the emitted signal and the wave shape of the received signal is performed.
The disadvantages of conventional pyrometers (thermocouples, thermoresistors, etc) are found in applications where one wants to measure an average temperature, in the necessity of using many of them and in subsequently taking the average, and in the difficulty of their use in hot and very corrosive environments. The disadvantages of pyrometers of an acoustic type for the measurement of the "time of flight" lie principally in the uncertainty of an exact determination of the "time of flight" at the very moment one is measuring the temperature of a gas in the presence of raised noise levels produced by the turbulence of the gas, by a burner, by structural vibrations and the like (in the case of the "spark-gap" the uncertainty derives from the fact that the emitted signal is a non-repeatable signal
and so its decoding is affected by measurement statistic, while in the second case the cross-correlation between the emitted and the received signals is not very efficient in the presence of the noise and echoes associated with turbulence); in the most favourable of conditions one can obtain a measurement of the accuracy of the estimate of the "time of flight" in the order of the median period of the emitted wave, which is unsatisfactory in the majority of cases (for example, with f=2000 Hz, the median period and therefore the precision of the measurement is about±0.5 milliseconds and this gives uncertainties in the order of ± 100° C in paths of about 10 m in an environment at a temperature of about 1000° C).
The present invention solves the problem of providing a precise measurement of the temperature of a gas under conditions of high temperature and in the presence of high noise levels.
The invented system still uses the aforementioned relationship between the "time of flight" and temperature, and as featured in the claims, includes a sound emitter sensitive to a single or to a group of frequencies, is coherent in phase and is associated with (or also functions as) a self- correlating receiver de-coder. This allows the relationship between the emitted sound and the background noise to be optimised, since all the energy of the emitted sound is concentrated in a very narrow band of appropriate frequencies; the receiver transforms the received sound into electric signals which are sent through a very highly stable narrow band-pass filter system. Then the filter system carries out action of strong correlation to eliminate any possible noise placed on the incoming sound-wave. The system of filters can be made up, alternatively or in combination, of:
- analog filters
- commuted condenser filters - digital signal processors.
In addition it is easy to observe that the signal which leaves the system of filters associated with the aforementioned emitter and receiver, represented on an amplitude-time diagram has the particular shape of a "fish" like the Hamming window know in the scientific literature. It has been found that the relative maximums making up the envelope of the fish are, from a temporal point of view, very highly correlated with the instant of arrival of the first wave of the received signal. Thus another characteristic of the invention is that having found such correlation it is used to ascertain with certainty the said instant of arrival, and so the "time of flight".
An electric circuit breaker active on the incoming signal is driven by an iterating algorithm always to allow the first n waves of the received signal to pass, n being an integer which the user of the system chooses as a function of the conditions of measurements, to avoid processing any signals from echoes and so enabling the system to measure a vast range of temperature without needing to set a trial temperature.
The main advantage of the invention lies in the fact that one can determine with great accuracy the "time of flight" of a sound-wave and, so, the temperature of a hot gas in a turbulent state in the presence of high background noise and in the presence of the other parameters mentioned in the first paragraph of this description. Another advantage of this invention is that the time resolution of the system is independent from the frequency used.
The invention will be described in more detail as follows with reference to the attached figures which represent one example of its embodiment and in which, Figure 1: is a diagrammatic representation of one way of implementing the system.
Figure 2: is a block diagram of the electronic components of the system.
Figure 3: is a diagrammatic representation of a second way of implementing the system.
Figure 1 shows that in two opposite windows in the walls P of a boiler C are two facing and identical horns T1, T2 (the horns are to be understood as siren-speakers (produced by the company R.C.F.-Industrie Elettroacustiche a S. Maurizio ; Reggio Emilia - model D 140 )). The horns T1 and T2 have speakers C1, C2 aligned along the I-I axis which crosses the heater and the flow of gas from the combustion FL.
The horn T2 emits a sinusoidal wave train of 2000 Hz which is received by horn Tl and is then transformed into an electrical signal which is sent to the amplifier A1.
Figure 2 illustrates the electronic system which processes and uses the received signal. The amplifier Al amplifies the received signal from horn T1 with a gain (G) set by a microprocessor MP and sends it to the circuit "killer" K, always controlled by a microprocessor MP. Once in operation, the circuit K closes 1 ms before the arrival of the signal and opens after 6 ms, thanks to an iterating calculation accomplished by the microprocessor. The signal so cut enters the band-pass filter Fl through which only the fundamental harmonic can pass and leaves in the already described fish shaped amplitude-time diagram. The signal is converted from an analog to a digital form by the ADC acquisition circuit and is sent to a microprocessor MP for processing. We will not describe the various functions of the conductors CON since these are self evident to an expert in the field.
The microprocessor MP processes the data, finds the m-relative maximum, for instance the relative maximum of the aforementioned "fish" diagram and determines "time of flight", also as a function of the moment in which the signal is emitted and generated itself by means of horn T2, and sends it to the display D. Furthermore it proceeds with the iterating cycle and sets the time of closure for the circuit K. The microprocessor MP shall always find the same maximum.
If the instant which corresponds to the above mentioned relative maximum of the "fish" is Tmax, the instant of closure for circuit killer K is calculated as:
(1) Tkp = Tmax, p-1 - KS
where:
- Tmax, p-1 is calculated on the iterative cycle which precedes the one on which Tkp is calculated;
- p is the iterative cycle second number;
- KS is an appropriate constant that depends on a factor of quality (Q) of the filters, on the number of poles of the filters and on the number n of waves of the received signal which one wants to enter the band-pass filter.
In order to perform a more sophisticated killer setting the following relationship may be used:
(2) Tkp = Tk, p-2 + η (Tk, p-1 - Tk, p-2) - KS where :
- p is the iterative cycle number and
- η is the error percentage used in the control.
If η = 1, relationships (1) and (2) are identical.
Figure 3 shows how the invented system can be alternatively implemented with an emitter unit which also functions as a receiver, so also obtaining a notable simplification of the apparatus. Such a unit could be for example a horn E-R made up of suitable transducers associated with an appropriate speaker, which an appropriate speaker functions both as an emitter and a receiver, mounted on a wall P of a heater C. On the opposite wall, instead of horn T1 as shown in Fig. 1. a signal pick-up device is installed, that is able to pick up the signal transmitted from the horn E-R and to send it back to the latter with a phase displacement of fixed time. As the figure shows, the pick-up device can simply be an acoustically reflective surface. Obviously the horn E-R will be associated with the electronic system A1, already illustrated with reference to Fig. 2. It is also obvious that two distinct horns could be installed adjacent, on the same wall of the heater to perform, respectively, the function of emitter and receiver, a pick-up device again to be installed on the opposite wall.

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1. A system to measure the transfer time of a sound wave in a gas, the velocity of a gas and hence measure the temperature of said gas using the relation between the temperature of a gas and the velocity at which the said sound wave propagates through the gas, and, to this purpose, consisting of an emitter (T2) stimulated by a first electric impulse to generate sound at a specific point in the gas, a receiver (T1) to receive said sound after the latter has travelled a given distance through said gas, a means of converting the said sound into a second electric signal, a means of comparing said first and second electrical signals by means of a suitable algorithm and thus defining the "time of flight" of said sound, an indicator of the temperature of said gas being a function of the time of flight, characterized in that it comprises: a current controlled emitter (T2), suited to generating a coherent phase sound and sensitive to a single or a group of frequencies; a receiver (T1) decoder and associated self-correlating to said emitter in order to send the sound received to a pass-band filter system with narrow band and extremely high stability (Fl); an electronic circuit breaker (K), that acts on the signal entering the filter system (F1)' piloted into a microprocessor (MP) by an iterating algorithm so as to allow always a pre-set number of n. first waves of the received signal; a microprocessor (MP) that processes the signal out-going from the filter system (F1) to a pattern like a Hamming window within a Time- Amplitude diagram in order to find the m-relative maximum and derive the time of flight from this.
2. A system according to claim 1 characterized in that said emitter (T2) that is a horn suited to emitting sound in the form of a sinusoid wave train; said receiver T1 that is a horn suited to receive the sound emitted by the emitter and that comprises a convertur that converts the sound received by said emitter into cm electric signal; an amplifier Al that amplifies said electric signal with a gain set by a microprocessor (MP); a circuit "killer" (K), controlled by a liticroprocotssor (MP) by means of an iterating calculation, which receives the amplified signal and cuts it in order to send it through a band-pass filter F1 which allows only the fundamental harmonic of the signal in the pattern like said Hamming window to pass; a data acquisition circuit (ADC) that converts said fundamental harmonic from its analog to its digital form and sends the converted signal to said microprocessor (MP) that processes data received, finds the relative maximums of the aforementioned form like Hamming window and calculates the time of flight as a function of the moment of emission of the signal; a display (D) associated to said microprocessor (MP) to show the time of flight as calculated by the microprocessor.
3. A system according to Claim 2, characterized in that said microprocessor (MP) calculates the instant (Tk) in which said circuit killer (K) closes, using the relationship Tk,p = Tmax, p-1 - KS, where
- Tk,p is a measure at cycle p,
- Tmax, p-1 is the instant that corresponds to the m-relative maximum of said form like Hamming window and - KS is a constant which depends on the quality factor (Q) and on the number of poles the band-pass filter (F1) has, and on the number n of signal waves of the received signal one has chosen to allow into said filter.
4. A system according to Claim 2, characterized in. that said microprocessor (MP) calculates the instant (Tk) in which said circuit killer (K) closes, using the relationship
Tk,p = Tmax, p-2 + (Tmax, p-1 - Tmax, p-2) - KS,η being the error percentage used in the control.
5. A system according to preceding claims, characterized in that the sound emitting and receiving functions are performed by a single emitter-receiver device (E-R) that emits the sound and receives it back after it has been sent back by a signal detector (S) positioned instead of said receiver (T1).
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