Koncepcja optoelektronicznego systemu do pomiaru temperatury w procesie podziemnego zgazowania węgla

W artykule, przedstawiono koncepcję optoelektronicznego systemu pomiarowego do wyznaczania temperatury w procesie podziemnego zgazowania węgla. Składa się on z dwóch części: specjalnie zaprojektowanego na potrzeby procesu podziemnego zgazowania węgla, optycznego czujnika temperatury oraz jednostki centralnej, odpowiedzialnej za rejestrację, przetwarzanie, wizualizację i archiwizację danych pomiarowych. Architektura systemu zakłada wykorzystanie hybrydy dwóch środowisk programistycznych: obiektowego języka programowania Python i środowiska pracującego w oparciu o wirtualne maszyny - LabVIEW.

This paper presents a concept of optoelectronic system to measure the temperature in the underground coal gasification reactor. The underground coal gasification process is utilized to obtain a gaseous product from coal in natural coal seem, in situ. This product can be use in different ways in chemical and energetic industry [1-3]. The key parameter affecting a composition of the gas is temperature [4, 5]. However, there is a problem with continuous temperature measurement inside underground coal gasification reactor due to lack of proper measurement devices. Therefore authors of this article are trying to construct an optical sensor for high temperature measurement [9] connected with special designed software. This monitoring and control system is divided into two parts (Fig. 1): an optical sensor and a CPU that performs processing, visualization and archiving of data. The communication between CPU and sensor is performed by driver 841 (section 2.2.1). The system architecture involves use of hybrid of two programming environments (section 2.2.3): object-oriented programming language Python and an environment based on a virtual machine – LabVIEW. This combination allow to effectively process and visualization measurement data. Furthermore there will be also design a special database for archiving data (Fig. 4). The developed sensor and software make possible to measure the temperature in the reactor of underground coal gasification in a non-contact way, utilizing the thermal radiation low and hybrid of two programming language.