Controlling a multiphase flow
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCarlos Peña Monferrer, Lan Ngoc Hoang, Eloisa Bentivegna, Mohab Elkaref
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Abstract
In an approach for controlling a multiphase flow configured to create a plurality of particles, a processor obtains images of a plurality of particles in a multiphase flow. A processor provides the images to a neural network adapted to determine a distribution of a spatial property of the plurality of particles from the provided images. A processor determines the distribution of the spatial property of the plurality of particles in the multiphase flow, based on the provided images, using the neural network. A processor controls the multiphase flow based on the determined distribution.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining, by one or more processors, real-time images of a plurality of particles in a multiphase flow;
- providing, by one or more processors, the images to a neural network adapted to determine a distribution of spatial properties of the plurality of particles from the provided images;
- determining, by one or more processors, the distribution of the spatial properties of the plurality of particles in the multiphase flow, based on the provided images, using the neural network;
- determining, by one or more processors, that the determined distribution fails to meet a spatial property distribution requirement;
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- responsive to determining that the determined distribution fails to meet the spatial property distribution, adjusting, by one or more processors, a flow control unit of a system to change one or more operating parameters of the multiphase flow until the distribution of the spatial properties of the plurality of particles meets the spatial property distribution.
A computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to obtain real-time images of a plurality of particles in a multiphase flow;
- program instructions to provide the images to a neural network adapted to determine a distribution of spatial properties of the plurality of particles from the provided images;
- program instructions to determine the distribution of the spatial properties of the plurality of particles in the multiphase flow, based on the provided images, using the neural network;
- program instructions to determine that the determined distribution fails to meet a spatial property distribution requirement;
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- program instructions, responsive to determining that the determined distribution fails to meet the spatial property distribution, to adjust a flow control unit of a system to change one or more operating parameters of the multiphase flow until the distribution of the spatial properties of the plurality of particles meets the spatial property distribution.
A computer system comprising:
- one or more computer processors, one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to obtain real-time images of a plurality of particles in a multiphase flow;
- program instructions to provide the images to a neural network adapted to determine a distribution of spatial properties of the plurality of particles from the provided images;
- program instructions to determine the distribution of the spatial properties of the plurality of particles in the multiphase flow, based on the provided images, using the neural network;
- program instructions to determine that the determined distribution fails to meet a spatial property distribution requirement;
- and
- program instructions, responsive to determining that the determined distribution fails to meet the spatial property distribution, to adjust a flow control unit of a system to change one or more operating parameters of the multiphase flow until the distribution of the spatial properties of the plurality of particles meets the spatial property distribution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.